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American  Book-Plates 

A  Guide  to  their  Study  with  Examples 
By  Charles  Dexter  Allen 

Member  Ex-Libris  Society  London  •  Member  Grolier  Club  New  York 
Member  Connecticut  Historical  Society  Hartford 

With  a  Bibliography  by  Eben  Newell  Hewins 

Member  Ex-Libris  Society 


Illustrated  with  many  reproductions  of  rare  and  interesting  book-plates 

and  in  the  finer  editions  with  many  prints  from  the  original 

coppers  both  old  and  recent 


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THE    MACMILLAN   COMPANY 

LONDON:  MACMILLAN  &  CO..  Ltd. 
MCMV 

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utlvEHAL 


CorVRIGHT,    1894, 

By  MACMILLAN  AND  CO. 


Set  up  and  electrotyped  October,  1894.      Reprinted 
November,  1894  ;  August,  1905. 


Xortoooti  ISrrss : 

J.  S.  Gushing  &  Co.  —  Berwick  &  Smith. 

Boston,  Mass.,  U.S.A. 


PREFACE. 


N  a  few  years  Book-plate  litera- 
ture will  have  a  place  in  the 
catalogues  of  the  Libraries,  as 
it  now  has  in  those  of  the 
dealers  in  books.  The  works 
of  the  Hon.  J.  Leicester 
Warren  (Lord  de  Tabley), 
Mr.  Egerton  Castle,  and  Mr. 
W.  J.  Hardy  on  the  English 
plates,  Mr.  Walter  Hamilton,  M.  Henri  Bouchot, 
and  M.  Poulet-Malassis  on  the  French,  Herr 
Warnecke  on  the  German,  and  M.  Carlander  on 
the  Swedish,  are  all  the  work  of  master  hands, 
and  are  recognized  as  authorities.  In  our  own 
country  the  lists  and  essays  of  Mr.  Richard  C. 
Lichtenstein  and  Mr,  Laurence  Hutton  have  lono: 
been  of  invaluable  service,  and  occupy  a  position 
both  at  home  and  abroad  of  undisputed  eminence. 
A  laro^e  number  of  articles  has  also  been  con- 
tributed  to  periodical  literature  by  those  well 
informed  upon  the  subject,  and  numerous  mono- 
graphs testify  to  the  growth  of  interest  in  this 
fascinating  study,  and  by  the  names  of  their 
authors,  to  the  class  of  scholars  and  students  of 
antiquarian  lore  who  deem  the  humble  book-plate 
worthy  of  their  attention. 

In  view  of  what  has  been  and  of  what  will  be 
written,  this  present  modest  attempt  to  introduce 


vi  Preface. 

more  fully  than  has  yet  been  done,  the  book-plates 
of  America,  needs  to  be  understood  as  simply  a 
pioneer  work ;  a  great  deal  of  information  will 
reward  the  patient  and  painstaking  investigator 
of  the  future,  which  is  now  inaccessible,  and 
without  doubt,  too,  much  will  be  found  even 
within  the  present  to  supplement  these  pages. 

This  book  could  not  have  been  undertaken  nor 
carried  to  completion  had  the  writer  been  denied 
the  generous  assistance  and  hearty  sympath}^  of 
our  collectors,  to  whom  he  desires  to  express  his 
appreciation  of  the  kindnesses  shown  him. 

Especially  to  Mr.  R.  C.  Lichtenstein,  Mr.  E.  N. 
Hewins,  and  Mr.  Fred  J.  Libbie  of  Boston,  does 
he  feel  under  deep  obligation  for  the  generous 
loan  of  their  splendid  collections,  for  ready  advice 
and  counsel,  for  cheerful  assistance  whenever 
asked  for,  and  for  that  tangible  sympathy  and 
lively  interest  which  are  worth  so  much  to  one 
enoraored  in  such  work.  To  manv  others  also  is 
he  indebted,  both  for  the  loan  of  plates  and  for 
kindly  words  of  encouragement. 

To  Mr.  S.  P.  Avery,^Mr.  Beverly  Chew,  Mr. 
E.  H.  Bierstadt,  Mr.  Henry  Blackwell,  Mr.  D. 
McN.  Stauffer,  Mr.  Edward  D.  Harris,  Mr. 
Laurence  Hutton,  and  Mr.  E.  W.  Nash,  of  New 
York  City;  to  ]\Ir.  W.  G.  Brown  of  Washington 
and  Lee  University  at  Lexington,  Va.;  Mr.  H.  E. 
Deats  of  Flemington,  N.J.;  Dr.  C.  E.  Clark  of 
Lynn;  Hon.  W.  A.  Courtnayof  Charleston,  S.C. ; 
Miss  Helen  E.  Brainerd  of  the  Columbia  College 
Library;  Mr.  Pickering  Dodge  of  Washington, 
D.C.;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Martin,  Mr.  Frank  B.  Gay, 


Preface.  vii 

Mr.  A.  C.  Bates,  and  Mr.  John  C.  Parsons,  of 
Hartford;  Dr.  Henry  C.  Eno  of  Saugatiick;  Dr. 
J.  H.  Dubbs  of  Lancaster,  Penn.,  President  of 
Franklin  and  Marshall  College;  Mr.  D.  V.  R. 
Johnston  of  the  State  Library  at  Albany;  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Paine  of  Worcester;  Mr.  Daniel  Rav- 
enel  of  Charleston,  S.C;  Mr.  Howard  Sill  of 
Glendale,  Md.;  Mr.  R.  A.  Brock  of  Richmond, 
Va.;  Mr.  Howard  Edwards  of  Philadelphia;  Dr. 
Swan  M.  Burnett  of  Washington,  D.C. ;  Mr. 
Richard  Wijnkoop  of  Brooklyn;  Mr.  Bisbee  of 
Dartmouth  College;  Mr.  William  Kelby  of  the 
New  York  Historical  Society;  and  to  Mr.  Lyon 
G.  Tyler  of  Williamsburg,  Va.,  President  of 
William  and  Mary  College,  does  he  wish  to  make 
acknowledgment  for  the  favors  which  have  con- 
tributed so  much  to  the  value  of  the  work.  From 
over  the  sea,  particularly  kind  assistance  has  come 
from  Rev.  T.  W.  Carson,  the  veteran  collector 
and  eminent  authority  of  Dublin. 

To  all  others  who  by  letter,  gift,  or  advice  have 
assisted  him,  the  writer  wishes  hereby  to  make 
suitable  and  hearty  acknowledgment. 

The  writer's  thanks  are  also  extended  to  those 
who  have  so  kindly  permitted  him  the  use  of  their 
plates  for  the  illustrating  of  the  book. 

A  word  more  is  due  to  Mr.  E.  N.  Hewins, 
who  very  kindly,  at  the  writer's  request,  accepted 
the  labor  of  preparing  the  excellent  Bibliography 
which  appears  in  the  volume. 

CHARLES  DEXTER  ALLEN. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  June,  1894. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Preface  v 

A  List  of  the  Illustrations xi 

Introductory i 

Name-labels  and  Mottoes i6 

Armorial  Book-plates 35 

Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Book-plates  and  Plates 

OF  Colleges,  Libraries,  and  Societies 57 

Book-plates  of  Special  Interest 79 

Early   American    Book-plate    Engravers,  with   Lists 

of  their  Work 104 

An  Alphabetical  List  of  Early  American  Book-plates  160 

A  Chronological  List  of  the  Dated  Plates  .  .  .  .  313 
An  Alphabetical  List  of  the  Signed  Plates,  showing 

the  Exact  Manner  of  Signing 314 

A    List   of   Mottoes  found    upon  the  Early  Plates, 

with  Translations 323 

A  Few  Recent  Examples 340 

The  American  Collectors  and  Collections    ....  377 

The  Ex  Libris  Societies 387 

Bibliography  (American,  English,  and  French)  .     .     .  389 

Conclusion 421 

Index 423 

ix 


LIST    OF    ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Full-page  Reproductions. 

Jereh.  Wadsworth I 

Moral  Library,  Yale  College 6 

James  Eddy  Mauran i6 

Eugene  Field 35 

Jacob  Sargeant,  by  yacob  Sargeaiit 46 

Peter  Manigault,  by  Yates 52 

John  Williams 54 

Richard  Wynkoop 56 

Social  Law  Library 66 

George  Alexander  Macbeth 79 

W.  F.  HOPSON,  by  W.  F.  Hopsoii 104 

William  Ashmead  Courtenay 122 

Edmund  H.  Garrett,  by  E.  H.  Garrett 138 

H.  E.  Deats 150 

Richard  C  Lichtenstein,  by  George  Moore i6o 


Xll 


List  of  Illustrations. 


To  face  page 

Louis  J.  Haber 323 

George  H.  Ellwanger,  by  Sidney  L.  Smith 340 

John  E.  Russell,  by  M.  T.  Callahan 357 

Dean  Sage 360 

Fred  C.  Sch'laicv.,  by  Hozuard  Sill 362 

Arthur  Roblnson  Stone,  by  George  M.  White      ....  364 

F.  W.  HOYT 366 


Illustrations  in  the  Text. 


PAGE 

George  Lee  Tuberville,  Vir- 
ginia            2 

Timothy  Newell,  printed 
by  Isaiah  Thoinas      .     .         3 

William  Lord,  East  Had- 
dam 5 

Geo.  C.  M.  Roberts,  Ai.D., 
Baltimore 6 

Elijah  F.  Reed      ....         7 

Jared  Ingersoll,  Esq.,  of 
New  Haven,   Conn.  .     .         8 

John  Walters  Gibbs, 
Charleston,  S.C.,  by  .-Id- 
eriietliie 9 

Peter  Middleton,  iM.D.,  by 
y.  Lewis 10 

Harrison  Gray  Otis  ...       11 

Lieut.  E.  Trenchard.  U.  S. 
Navy 12 

Samuel  Elam,  Rhode  Is- 
land             13 

John  Adams 15 

Hannah  Reynolds     ...       17 

E  Libris  Thomce  Holt  .     .       18 

John  Campbell,  Charles 
County 19 

Richard  Sprigg,  Jr.,  by  T. 
Span'ow 20 

Thomas  O.  Selfridge,  Bos- 
ton, 1799 22 

Worcester  Circulating  Li- 
brary     23 

Daniel  Greenleaf ....      25 


Timothy   Mann,  Walpole, 

Oct.,  1810 27 

A.  L.  Hollingsworth,  Bos- 
ton, Mass 29 

George  Bancroft  ....  31 

William  Prescott ....  32 
Henry      Blackwell,      New 

York  City 33 

Edward  Pennington,  Phil- 
adelphia     34 

Gabriel  Jones.  Attorney  at 

Law,  in  Virginia    ...  36 

Joseph  Dudley,  1754      .     .  38 
Jer.  Dummer,Anglus  Amer- 

icanus 39 

Minot,  Boston 40 

Frederik  Philipse,  Esq.       .  42 
William    P.    Smith,   A.M., 

bv  'riioiiias  Johnston      .  45 
Andrew  Tyler,  by  Hind    .  46 
John  Durand,  Esq.    ...  47 
Anthony  Stewart,  Annapo- 
lis, Md 48 

Myles  Cooper.  LL.D.,  etc.  49 
Andrew  Oliver,  attributed 

to  Hurd 50 

Benjamin  Kissam.  by  Daw- 
kins      51 

Samuel  Vaughan,  E^sq.  .     .  53 

W.  Jackson 54 

De  Witt  Clinton,  by  Mave- 
rick.    .......  55 

James  Parker 58 


List  of  Ilhtstj'atioiis. 


Xlll 


PAGE 

Henry  Andrews,  by //«rr/j,      59 

New  York  Society  Library, 
by  Maverick      ....       60 

New  York  Society  Library, 
1789,  by  Maverick     .     .       61 

Montlily  Library  in  Farm- 
ington,  Conn 63 

Village  Library,  Farming- 
ton,  Conn 65 

Society  for  Propagating  the 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,       66 

Hasty  Pudding  Library, 
Harvard  College    ...       68 

Linonian  Library,  Yale  Col- 
lege       69 

Linonian  Library  {Vale 
College') 70 

Arnold  Arboretum,  1892, 
by  Geo.  Wharton  hd- 
luards 72 

New  York  Society  Library, 
by  ElisJia  Gallaiidet  .     .       74 

Phoenix  Society    ....       76 

Brothers  in  Unity,  Yale 
College,  by  Feltoii      .     .       'j'j 

Samuel  Hill 78 

Stephen  Cleveland    ...       80 

Columbia  College  Library, 
New  York,  by  Anderson,      81 

Isaiah  Thomas      ....       83 

Albany    Society     Library, 

1759 84 

John  Quincy  Adams      .     .  86 

Josiah  Quincy 87 

Livius 88 

Dr.  John  Jeffries,  attributed 

to  Callender      ....  89 

Geo.  Washington, ^^i?;////;/ 1?,  91 
Geo.  Washington, yV^//;^///- 

lent 94 

Bushrod  Washington    .     .  96 

Daniel  Webster  ....  97 
Brander      Matthews,      by 

E.  A.  Abbey 99 

Edmund    Clarence     Sted- 

man 100 


PAGE 

Laurence  Hutton  ....     102 
Winfield  Scott      ....     103 
Robert  Hale,  Esq.,  of  Bev- 
erly, by  Hiird  .     .     .     .     107 
John   Chandler,  Jr.,  Esq., 

by  Hitrd 108 

Lewis  De  Blois,  l)y  Hnrd.  109 
Joshua  Spooner,  by  Hnrd,  1 10 
Harvard  College,  by  Hiird,  1 1 2 
John     Vassall,     Esq.,     by 

Hurd 114 

John  Lowell,  by //w^/ .  .  115 
Peter  A.  Browne,  by  Akin,  1 18 
John    Pintard,   LL.D.,   by 

Anderson 120 

Apprentices'  Library,  New 
York  City,  by  Ander- 
son   121 

Thomas  Russell,  by  Cal- 
lender   125 

Henry  D.Gilpin,  by  Childs,  127 
Whitehead  Hicks,  by  Daiv- 

kins 130 

Social    Library,    Wethers- 
field,  by  Doolittle  .     .     .     133 
Eli  Forbes,  by  Fiirnass     .     135 
John  Chambers,  by  Elisha 

Gallatidet 136 

Anonymous,  by  Maverick,  141 
Abraham      Bancker,      by 

Maverick 143 

Gardiner      Chandler,      by 

Revere 146 

William  Wetmore,  by  Re- 
vere      147 

Paul  Revere,  by  Revere  •  148 
John  Lenthall,  by  Tliack- 

ara 153 

Bloomfield,  by  'J'renc/iard,  154 
Luther   Martin,   attributed 

to  Trencliard    .     .     .     .     155 
John     Franklin,     Boston, 

New  Eng.,  by  Tnrner    .     156 
Bloomfield   Mcllvaine,   by 

Seymour 157 

G.  A.  Smith 159 


XIV 


List  of  lUustyations. 


FACE 

Anon>-mous.  by  Maverick,  i6i 
William    Belcher,    Savan- 
nah   171 

Absalom  Blackley.  by  J/^z'- 

erick 173 

Hon.  William  Carmichael, 

Esq iSi 

Col.  John  Skey  Eustace    .  199 

Ewing 201 

Andrew   G.   Fraunces.   by 

Maverick 205 

John  Goelet,  attributed  to 

Ma7'erick 209 

Richard  Harison  .     .     .     .  215 

Barrack  Hays,  by  Huit      .  219 
Samuel        Farmar        Jar- 

vi-;.  D-D 227 

William  Jauncey  ....  229 
Thomas  Johnson,  by  Mav- 
erick      231 

Edward     Livingston,     by 

Maverick 238 

Abraham  Lodge  ....  240 

Rev.  John  Murray     .     .     .  253 
Francis     Panton.    Jr..    by 

Maverick 259 

Samuel  Parker 260 

William  Penn 263 

James  Power 270 

Samuel  Smith 283 

J.  B.  Swett 289 


John  Tayloe 

Richard  Varick,  by  Bil- 
lings    .... 

\'irginia  Council  Chamber 

John  C.  Warren  .     .     . 

\\'.  Warren 

William  Duer  .... 

Malvians 

Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich 

Melvin  H.  Hapgood 

Joseph  Henr}Dubbs.D.D 

fames  Phinnev  Baxter  . 

Albert  C  Bates     .     .     . 

George  Wharton  Edwards. 

John  Herbert  Corning,  by 
H.  Sandham     .     . 

George  L.  Parmelee . 

Paul  Lemperlv,  bv  Bert  K. 
Canficld  .'  .    '.     .     . 

Joseph  H.  Wheeler  .     . 

Chauncey  Lawrence  Wil- 
liams, by  Geo.  A".  Halm 

Samuel  Wesley  Mar%-in . 

Adam  \'an  Allan . 

Marcus  Benjamin . 

Henr}-  S.  Rowe    . 

Julia  Dexter  Coffin 

Jeremiah  Evarts  . 

John  Andrew  .     . 

Paul  Lemperly,  by  E.  H. 
Garrett    .     .     . 


PAGI' 
291 

295 
297 
299 

322 

339 
343 
3-14 
345 
348 
350 
11^ 

354 


359 
361 

364 
366 

367 
369 
376 
374 
386 


421 


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AMERICAN    BOOK-PLATES. 


INTRODUCTORY. 


E  cannot  venture  to  guess 
which  was  the  first  book-plate 
made  in  America,  nor  to  say 
with  absolute  certainty  whence 
came  the  first  plate  used  in 
our  country  ;  but  undoubtedly 
the  latter  came  over  already 
pasted  into  some  book  of  a 
Dutch  or  English  settler. 
The  larger  part  of  our  books  came  from  Eng- 
land, and  very  few  plates  are  found  with  arms 
of  other  nationalities.  The  colonists  who  came 
from  England  bringing  books,  brought  also  the 
home  ideas  concerning  books,  and  the  book- 
plate was  a  natural  piece  of  property  to  acquire. 
Their  descendants,  who  continued  the  connec- 
tion with  the  mother-country,  used  plates  more 
generally,  and  the  fashion  spread  naturally.  It 
never  became  very  general,  but  was  confined  to 
those  of  gentle  birth  ;  the  clergy,  the  lawyers,  and 
men  of  education.  We  shall  see  that  it  was  not 
confined  to  the  men  alone,  but  that  the  women 
of  literary  accomplishments  also  used  plates. 


2  American  Book-plates. 

By  far  the  greater  part  of  the  plates  are  cut  on 
copper,  but  there  are  some  woodcuts  as  will  be 
seen  in  an  examination  of  the  list ;  also,  there  are 
some  which  look  as  if  cut  in  silver,  which  was 


C^e^/'^^, 


"Virginia . 


an  easier  metal  to  work,  or  perhaps  in  type-metal. 
One  example  is  known  in  which  brass  was  used, 
and  this  old  plate  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the 
writer.  The  steel  engravings  arc  of  rather  recent 
date;  and  while  there  are  a  number  of  these,  the 


Introductory.  3 

new  plates  are  mostly  on   copper.     The  simple 
labels  are  printed  from  type. 

The  larger  part  of  our  early  plates  are  armorial 
in  character ;  and  while  heraldry  forms  so  promi- 
nent and  important  a  feature,  it  is  left  practically 
untouched  in  the  present  volume.  The  number 
interested  in  the  science  is  small,  the  authorities 
on  coats-of-arms  and  on  blazoning  differ,  and  the 
present  writer  had   not  the  time   to   make   the 


J.  T.'Kmait  prinU 

thorough  investigation  necessary  to  a  satisfactory 
treatment  of  this  interesting  branch.  Upon  con- 
sultation with  other  collectors,  and  with  their 
advice,  it  was  decided  to  leave  this  subject  for 
a  future  volume  should  any  call  for  it  arise. 

A  decided  difference  is  noticed  between  the 
book-plates  of  the  Northern  and  the  Southern 
Colonies.  In  the  South,  to  which  came  men  of 
wealth  and  leisure  with  cultivated  tastes,  we 
would  expect  to  find  the  little  superfluities  and 
niceties  of  daily  life  sooner  in  vogue  and  more 


4  American  Book-plates. 

generally  used.  Bringing  books  and  musical  in- 
struments with  them,  retaining  their  connection 
with  the  far-away  home  by  correspondence  and 
visits,  sending  their  sons  to  the  great  Universities 
to  be  educated,  and  to  the  Law  Schools  for  a  fin- 
ishing course,  and  ordering  their  clothes,  books, 
furniture,  and  all  of  the  luxuries  of  life  from 
England,  they  would  naturally  be  the  first  to  use 
the  book-plate.  Very  few  of  the  Southern  plates 
were  engraved  by  American  engravers.  They 
were  nearly  all  done  in  London,  when  some 
member  of  the  family  was  over,  or  by  order  from 
the  Colony;  for  this  reason  the  Southern  plates 
are  better  in  heraldry,  design,  and  execution  than 
those  of  New  England  and  New  York.  They 
were  the  product  of  men  experienced  in  such 
work ;  they  were  all  armorial  and  in  the  prevail- 
ing English  mode. 

The  earliest  comers  to  New  England  had 
a  prejudice  against  coats-of-arms  and  trinkets 
of  such-like  character,  which  their  descendants, 
however,  soon  forgot.  Pride  of  ancestry  and  love 
of  the  display  of  aristocratic  claims  developed 
when  the  hard  circumstances  of  the  former  years 
had  worn  off,  and  we  find  the  prominent  families 
of  the  North  using  book-plates,  and  having  their 
arms  upon  their  coaches.  In  one  important  feat- 
ure, however,  these  Northern  plates  differ  from 
the  Southern,  —  they  are  mostly  the  work  of  our 
native  engravers,  very  few  being  done  in  England. 

The  work  of  these  native  artisans,  who  were 
mostly  self-taught  in  this  art  of  engraving  on 
copper,  is  confessedly  inferior  to  that  of  the  Lon- 


Introductory.  c 

don  experts  found  upon  the  Southern  plates,  both 
in  drawing  and  execution,  but  their  work  is  of 
more  value  to  the  collector  from  this  very  fact 
of  their  being  American  work.  They  furnish 
examples  of  native  skill,  both  in  engraving  and 
in  copper-plate  printing.  ' 

The  ornamentation  of  buttons,  spoons,  table- 
ware,  and    other  articles    of   silver  was    already 


practised  when  the  demand  for  the  book-plate 
arose,  so  that  there  were  skilful  men  ready  to  turn 
their  attention  to  this  new  branch  of  their  art. 

The  War  of  the  Revolution  naturally  affected 
the  native  production  of  book-plates,  but  a  few 
years  after  its  close,  when  Boston,  New  York,  and 
Philadelphia  were  active  in  publishing  books, 
the  engraver  found  work  more  plenty,  and  very 
many  who  were  employed  upon  the  plates  for  the 
illustration  of  books  also  produced  book-plates. 


6  Ajiierican  Book-plates. 

Nathaniel  Hurd  was  the  principal  engraver  of 
book-plates  in  the  North  before  the  war,  though 
Thomas  Johnson,  who  was  born  before  him  and 
who  also  died  before  he  did,  made  some  plates, 
while  Turner  and  Paul  Revere  were  also  working 
at  this  period. 

Henry  Dawkins,  in  Philadelphia,  came  over 
from  England,  and  so  did  the  elder  Maverick, 
who  made  so  many  plates  for  the  New  Yorkers. 


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The  literary  plates  are  smaller  in  number  than 
vv^e  could  wish,  and  they  do  not  show  a  wide 
range  of  ideas  either.  Very  probably  some  of  the 
designs  were  borrowed  from  English  plates,  and 
were  produced  over  again  for  different  customers, 
or  were  freely  copied  by  other  engravers  who 
liked,  or  who  found  customers  who  liked,  the 
design  of  others.  The  plate  used  by  George 
Goodwin  is  one  of  four  of  this  same  design.  The 
shelf  of  books  is  also  seen  in  the  plate  of  G.  C. 
M.   Roberts,    M.D.,    Thomas    Robbins,    and    the 


Virtus   et  scieniia   ad  ufilitatgia  JirLgntit 


OF 


Introdttctory.  y 

Elijah  F.  Reed,  which  is  a  direct  reproduction  of 
the  Rohbius.  Piles  of  books,  but  not  the  regula- 
tion "Book-pile,"  are  seen  in  the  Brown  and  Lewis 
plates,  while  the  only  real  library  interiors  arc  the 
Tayloe  plate,  the  Moral  Library  and  the  Village 
Library  (Farmington,  Conn.).  John  Allan,  the 
old-book  lover  of  New  York,  used  a  plate  with 
an  open  book  against  an  anchor,  and  the  plate  of 


Edimind  Peun  shows  a  love  for  books  in  the 
dainty  volumes  disposed  about  the  frame. 

The  patriotism  of  our  book-lovers  is  shown  in 
very  many  designs,  which  use  the  American  flag 
or  the  eagle.  The  thirteen  stars  also,  the  motto 
of  the  United  States,  and  various  private  mottoes 
of  a  very  patriotic  nature,  are  frequently  used. 

It  is  noticeable  that  as  compared  with  the 
Southern  plates  there  are  but  few  of  the  North- 
ern examples  which  give  the  address  or  residence 
of  the  owner ;    that  is,  speaking  of  the  armorial 


8 


Auierican  Book-plates. 


plates,  the  printed  name  labels  give  these  partic- 
ulars quite  often. 

The  fared  higersoll  plate  gives  New  Haven  as 
the  residence  of  the  owner,  while  Rhode  Island 
follows  the  name  on  the  plate  of  Sanmcl  Elain. 


of NeV Haven  Connecticut. 


Other  Northern  plates  which  are  so  engraved  are 
the  Colonel  Eiistace  of  New  York,  Comptroller 
Ellis  ton  also  of  New  York,  Lenox  of  Philadel- 
phia, Atlce  of  Lancaster,  John  Franklin,  Boston, 
New  Eno^land,  and  Robert  Hale  of  Beverly.  Of 
the  Southern  plates,  Wormeley,  Waller,  Ttiber- 
ville,   Tazezvell^  Skelton,  Randolph,  and  Liidwell 


Introductory.  o 

give  Virginia  as  their  residence  ;  Drayton  names 
Sonth  Caj^otina,  the  Dr.  Cabell  plate  names  Rich- 
mond, and  the  John  Walters  Gibbs  names  Charles- 
ton, S.C  The  plates  used  in  the  West  Indies 
also  show  the  residence  quite  often.  There,  too, 
as  well  as  in  the  Southern  colonies,  the  profession 
or  position  of  the  owner,  as  well  as  the  London 


t'/'aA-zT^/Zar  .fa/.)y  ' 


law  school  in  which  he  was  educated,  are  often 
given.  Thus  we  have  William  Blanc,  Middle 
Temple,  Dominica ;  Chas.  Pinfold,  LL.D., 
Governor  of  Baj^badoes ;  Peyton  Randolph  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  London ;  Francis  Page  of  the 
Inner  Temple  Esqr. ;  William  Ass  he  ton  of 
Gi-ays  Inn.  In  the  Northern  examples  we  find 
Jo  Jin  Gai^diner  of  the  Inner  Temple,  2.\\d  Jotiathan 
Belcher,  E  Societate  Medij  Templi. 


lO 


American  Book-plates. 


We  note  also  in  running  through  the  List  that 
the  occupations  most  often  noted  on  the  book- 
plates are  those  of  the  medical  and  the  legal  pro- 
fession. Barristers,  lawyers,  and  attorne3'S  are 
often  so  named,  and  the  initials  M.D.,  or  the  full 
word  Doctoi^,  are  seen. 

The  abbreviations  of  other  degrees  are  found 
also,  and  the  plates  of  clergymen  are  not  uncom- 
mon. 


r 


Introchtciory. 


II 


Several  plates  remain  unnoticed  in  the  follow- 
ing pages,  which  are  probably  American,  but 
which,  for  lack  of  positive  information,  it  is 
thought  best  not  to  include.  Among  these  is  an 
early  Dutch  plate  which,  if  it  could  be  accurately 
traced  to  its  original  owner,  might  prove  to  be 
one  of  the  earliest  plates  used  in  "America. 

It  seems  that  a  word  is  needed  in  defence  of 
the  perfectly  legitimate  and  gentle  pursuit  of  col- 
lecting book-plates.     A    great    deal    of   sarcasm 


y    \%^% 


and  indignation  have  found  their  way  into  the 
columns  of  periodical  literature,  particularly  in 
England,  the  especial  purpose  of  which  is  to 
trouble  the  humble  collector,  and  to  discredit  him 
in  the  eyes  of  the  world.  He  is  pointed  out  as 
a  destroyer  of  valuable  books,  as  an  animal  so 
greedy  in  the  pursuit  of  his  insignificant  prey 
as  to  ruin  elegant  bindings  that  he  may  secure 
worthless  bits  of  paper,  and  as  actually  so  devoid 
of  good  sense  as  to  remove  such  of  these  as  are 
interesting  —  for  it  is   reluctantly  admitted   that 


12 


American  Book-plates. 


some  interest  does  attach  to  the  plates  used  by  cer- 
tain men  of  fame  in  historical  annals — from  their 
rightful  place  within  the  covers  of  the  very  books 
read  and  handled  by  these  illustrious  owners. 

Let  it  be  remembered  that  but  a  small  part 
of  the  many  books  published  have  a  permanent 
value,  and  that  a  book  once  eagerly  sought  may 
outlive  its  usefulness,  and  come  to  have  a  com- 
mercial value  of  so  much  a  pound  as  old  paper, 
instead  of  so  much  a  copy  in  different  styles  of 


binding.  Surely,  no  one  can  quarrel  with  the 
collector  who  removes  the  book-plate,  found  with- 
in it,  from  such  a  worn-out  specimen,  even  if  the 
removal  necessitates  the  ruin  of  the  cover.  But 
to  remove  a  boc!)k-plate  does  not  necessarily  mean 
to  ruin  the  cover;  it  requires  some  skill  and  con- 
siderable patience  to  remove  a  valuable  plate 
without  injury  to  either  itself  or  the  cover  upon 
which  it  was  pasted,  but  it  is  done  daily.  Surely 
no  one  can  find  fault  with  this  —  a  skilful  opera- 
tion resulting  satisfactorily  to  the  plate-collector 
and  to  the  book-owner. 


Introductory. 


13 


Again,  no  intelligent  book-plate  collector  will 
separate  the  plate  of  a  famous  man  from  the 
book  which  has  been  its  home  for  years,  and 
which  was  once  handled  and  read  by  its  famous 
owner.  Even  a  worthless  book  will  thus  be 
saved  by  the  collector,  which  was  fit  but  for  the 
fire  or  the  ash-heap,  and  which  would  have  gone 


thither,  plate  and  all,  save  for  his  discriminating 
eye,  while  a  valuable  book  no  one  would  think  of 
despoiling.  Would  an  intelligent  collector,  hav- 
ing a  book  from  the  library  of  George  Washington, 
with  his  plate  upon  the  cover  and  his  autograph 
in  its  accustomed  place,  think  of  soaking  off  tlie 
plate  and  cutting  out  the  signature  .'^  Not  at  all ; 
no  matter  how  worthless  the  book  mioht  chance 


14  American  Book-plates. 

to  be,  the  fact  that  it  was  Washington's  is  suffi- 
cient to  insure  it  from  any  harm,  while  the  pres- 
ence of  the  autograph  and  the  book-plate  but 
adds  to  the  value  as  establishing  beyond  perad- 
venture  the  original  ownership. 

The  book-plate  collector  is  naturally  a  book- 
lover.  He  must  not  be  accused  or  suspected  of 
crimes  against  his  own  kith  and  kin.  He  is  a 
harmless  and  useful  specimen  of  the  genus  col- 
lector, who  with  assiduity,  perseverance,  and  in- 
telligence seeks  to  preserve  these  memorials  of 
past  days,  which  in  the  rage  for  indiscriminate 
collecting  were  overlooked,  and  are  but  now  begin- 
ning to  receive  the  attention  they  are  worthy  of. 

It  is,  however,  to  be  admitted  that  at  first 
glance,  the  general  reader  who  has  not  developed 
a  special  liking  for  the  things  of  the  past  in 
history,  art,  or  biography,  may  see  no  especial 
interest  in  book-plates.  But  let  him  examine  a 
collection  of  good  plates  with  their  intelligent 
owner,  who  can  point  out  to  him  the  facts  worthy 
of  note ;  let  him  once  understand  that  celebrated 
artists  like  Albrecht  Durer,  Jost  Amman,  William 
Hogarth,  William  Marshall,  George  Vertue, 
Bewick,  Bartolozzi,  and  even  Raphael  Morghen 
were  willing  to  devote  time  and  taste  to  the  de- 
signing or  engraving  of  the  book-plate ;  let  him 
handle  some  of  their  work,  and  reflect  upon  the 
effort  the  master  considered  so  small  a  design 
worthy  of;  let  him  see  the  plates  of  some  of  the 
noted  names  in  history,  art,  letters,  medicine,  the 
sciences,  and  the  professions ;  let  him  take  in  his 
hands  the  plates  of  William  Penn,  the  friend  of 


I 


Introductory. 


15 


the  Indian  and  benefactor  of  his  race,  of  Lau- 
rence Sterne,  of  David  Gar  rick,  of  Horace  Wal- 
pole,  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Charles  Dickens,  or 
of  George  Washuigton,  of  John  Adams,  and 
Charles  Carroll,  signers  of  the  Declaration ;  let 
him  see  a  plate  engraved  by  Paul  Revere  whose 


fji^mri/fiycda 


services  in  the  Revolution  he  has  known  of  from 
his  schooldays ;  —  let  him  see  these  and  scores 
more  of  similar  interest,  and  he  cannot  fail  to 
respond  to  the  enthusiasm  of  their  owner.  But 
indeed  it  is  a  pursuit,  the  delights  of  which  are 
discernible  to  those  only  who  bring  to  it  the 
capacity  for  such  pleasures. 


NAME-LABELS    AND    MOTTOES. 


F  all  forms  of  book-plates  the 
simplest  possible  is  the  printed 
name  of  the  owner,  unaccom- 
panied by  either  motto,  device, 
or  ornamentation  of  any  kind. 
Such  a  plate  had  Philip  Houc, 
one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Mercantile  Library,  and  in 
the  early  twenties  a  mayor  of 
the  city  of  New  York.  His  plate  is  merely  a  bit 
of  paper  with  his  name  in  bold  script  printed 
upon  it  from  an  engraved  copper-plate. 

This  style  of  plate  is  not  chronologically  the 
earliest,  but  is  taken  as  our  starting-point  be- 
cause of  its  unrelieved  simplicity ;  this  fulfils  the 
mission  of  the  book-plate,  —  it  proclaims  the 
ownership  of  the  book  in  which  it  is  seen;  not 
in  delicate  language,  to  be  sure,  not  with  any  invi- 
tation to  dip  into  the  volume  in  hand,  not  with 
any  evidence  of  the  owner's  taste  in  reading,  but 
with  a  directness  not  to  be  misunderstood. 

The  essential  part  of  the  book-plate  is  the 
name  of  the  owner;  and  while  this  is  sufficient  of 
itself,  it  is  found  profitable  and  pleasant  to  accom- 
pany it  with  an  apt  quotation  from  a  favorite 
author,  with  a  caution  against  the  improper  hand- 

i6 


^t 


A  *    I 


James  firjrgjfiiitrztir. 


of 


A\h* 


CAU< 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


17 


ling  of  books,  with  a  warning  of  tlie  sad  result 
of  declining  Wisdom's  guidance,  or  with  an  invi- 
tation to  enjoy  the  beauties  of  literature  and  to 
share  the  benefits  of  careful  reading.  In  addition 
to  these  mere  typographical  adjuncts  an  oppor- 
tunity is  offered  for  the  display  of  those  more 
decorative  garnishments  which  have  led  to  the 
development  of  the  handsomer  styles  of  plates. 


^^*-- 


Alexander Stcdmaiis:  Thomas  Thaxters,  1791: 
Williain  W.  Potters  Book:  Aaron  Woohuortlis, 
Ex  Bono  Rev.  S.  Buell,  D.D.  These  plates  use 
the  possessive  case,  are  embellished  with  borders 
of  ornamental  type,  and  supply  some  further 
information  by  showing  the  date  of  their  being 
used,  or  by  naming  the  giver  of  the  volumes. 
Other  styles  of  expressing  book-ownership  are 
afforded    by    the   following:     Nicolas   Pike   His 


i8 


American  Book-plates. 


Book  1768:  Hannah  Adams,  Medjield  179-:  The 
Property  of  John  Clap,  Roxbury  1791  :  Davidis 
Dickinson  Liber,  A.D.  1796:  Lietit.  E.  Trench- 
ard,  U.  S.  Navy:  Simeon  Baldwin,  Owner :  Ex 
Libris  I.  G.  Thomas :  Library  T.  W.  Curtis,  N'o. : 
Belonging  to  the  Librajy  of  Thomas  Torres t  Bet- 
ton,  Germantown  Pa. :  The  Property  of  John 
Weld  native  of  Pomfret,  Conn.  Resident  of  Pom- 


NUMERUS     ^^dtC^    Pre 

E      LIBRIS 


T.U<Q^.0A. 


I      THOM^  HOLT.     \ 


i^^^. 


fret,  Bd t  of  Mr.  James  Steele  of  ILartford,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1796:  IV.  Lewis,  Ejus  Liber:  Johann 
Christoph  Kunze,  Prediger  in  Philadelphia:  Em- 
manuel Jones  e  Coll;  Gul;  etMa:   1756. 

These  old  type-set  labels  with  their  quaint 
borders  of  ornamental  type,  —  scrolls,  flourishes, 
stars,  vines,  and  even  grammatical  signs,  —  are 
usually  found  to  be  printed  on  good  white  hand- 
made paper,  which  was  seldom  trimmed  with  care; 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


19 


occasionally  a  tinted  paper  is  found,  —  yellow 
more  often  than  any  other,  but  sometimes  a  blue 
or  green ;  these  served  the  less  pretentious  of  our 
ancestors  in  lieu  of  the  coats-of-arms  and  family 
mottoes  of  those  of  higher  lineage,  and  are  found 
in  quantities  throughout  the  New  England  and 
Middle  States:  even  farther  south  they  are  not 
uncommon,  but  are  not  so  numerous. 


In  making  up  these  ornamental  borders  the 
type  was  usually  set  in  the  form  of  a  parallelo- 
gram, occasionally  in  a  square,  oval,  circle,  or 
diamond,  and  seldom  in  fanciful  shapes.  The  most 
ambitious  plate  of  this  kind  which  has  come 
under  my  observation  is  that  which  once  graced 
the  books  of  Mary  McGinley;  this  is  a  rather 
large  plate,  and  the  type  is  set  in  the  form  of  an 
urn,  within  the  lines  of  which  are  given  the  motto 
and  the  owner's  name. 

A  step  in  advance  of  these  wholly  typographi- 
cal examples  are  those  which  employ  a  woodcut 


20 


American  Book-plates. 


border  to  surround  the  name,  and  instances  can 
be  giv^en  of  such  a  border  enclosing  the  name 
printed  from  type ;  festoons  of  flowers  or  of  cord, 
and  draperies  of  cloth,  were  also  used  as  a  simple 
setting  for  the  owner's  name.  In  this  connection 
mention  may  be  made  of  the  work  of  T.  Sparrow, 
an  obscure  engraver  of  Maryland;  no  heraldic 
or  pictorial  examples  of  his  workmanship  have 
been  identified,  and  he  probably  confined  himself 


to  the  simple  woodcut  designs  of  which  but  a 
small  number  are  known.  Always  using  a  bor- 
der of  floriated  scrolls,  he  never  omitted  an  origi- 
nal contrivance  which  is  the  characteristic  mark 
of  his  work,  — a  group  of  thirteen  stars  surrounded 
often  by  a  wreath.  This  is  always  found  in  a 
prominent  place,  and  is  an  indication  of  his  patri- 
otism as  well  as  that  of  the  owner  of  the  plate. 

It   must   not    be    supposed    that    the    heraldic 
book-plate  was  an  outgrowth  or  development  of 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes.  21 

the  name-label :  not  at  all ;  they  were  contempo- 
raneous and  were  both  used  in  Enc^land  lonsf 
before  they  were  here. 

Coming  now  to  the  subject  of  mottoes,  we  find 
a  wide  field  to  travel  over,  many  languages  to 
read,  many  quotations  to  recognize,  with  hints 
and  warnings,  and  even  threatenings,  by  the  score, 
from  jealous  book-lovers.  Mottoes  readily  fall 
into  two  classes :  those  which  are  chosen  by  the 
owner  for  some  personal  reason,  and  those  which 
are  family  mottoes,  and  which  are  used  without 
thought  because  they  are  a  family  inheritance,  or 
with  a  commendable  pride  in  such  legacies  from 
an  honorable  ancestry.  Latin  is  the  language 
most  often  used  probably,  though  English  is  a 
strong  rival,  while  German,  French,  Greek,  and 
even  Hebrew  and  Welsh  are  also  found  upon  our 
book-plates.  Sentiments  opposing  the  habit  of 
book-borrowing  are  of  frequent  occurrence,  and 
in  some  instances  are  of  such  severity  as  to  leave 
no  doubt  of  their  effectiveness.  For  brevity  and 
pointedness  the  following  example  can  hardly  be 
exceeded:  — 

This  book  was  bongJit  and  paid  for  by 

D.  C.  Colcsworthy. 
Borrozvins::  rtciQ-hbors  are  rccouunciidcd 
to  supply  themselves  in  the  same  mariner. 
Price  seventy-Jive  eents. 

On  the  book-plate  of  D.  W.  Jayne  the  follow- 
ing verse  from  the  Bible  is  used :  — 

Go  ye  rather  to  them  that  sell  and  bny  for  yonrsclves. 
Matt.  Chap.  xxv.  ver.  9. 


22 


American  Book-plates. 


Thomas  O.  Selfrldge, 

BOSTON, 
1799. 


Verses  from  Holy  Writ  are  quite  frequently- 
used  on  plates,  and  the  style  of  expression  found 
in  the  Psalms  and  Proverbs  is  borrowed  as  add- 
ing an  authoritative  emphasis  to  the  words  of 
caution  and  advice, — 

TJie  wicked  bornnv,  and  retnmcth  not :   do  tJiou  not  like 
unto  them. 

Return  iv/iat  tJion  borroivctli  zvith  the  most  sacred piinctu- 
ality,  and  ivitJiJiold  it  not. 

On  the  plate  of  a  book-lover  in  Charles- 
ton, S.C, — 

And  ye  shall  keep  me  Jtntil  the  fonrteentJi  day.  And 
it  shall  be  wJicn  tJioii  hast  made  an  end  of  reading^  this 
book.  Send  me  away  unto  my  master.  Ex.  xii.  6 :  Jer. 
li.  63  :   Geji.  x.riz'.  54. 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


23 


Every  one  has  suffered  from  book-borrowers, 
even  from  school-day  times,  when  the  rude 
doggerel,  — 

Steal  not  this  book  for  fear  of  sJiame, 
For  here  yoii  see  the  owner  s  nanie, 

or  its  variant. 

Steal  not  this  book  for  fear  of  strife, 
For  its  oivner  carries  a  huge  jack-k^iife, 

was  printed  in  coarse  letters  across  the  cover  of 
the  books  most  likely  to  go  astray.  How  irritat- 
ing it  is  to  find  the  very  volume  one  needs  at  the 
moment,  missing  from  its  accustomed  place  on 
the  shelf ;   if  anything  is  lacking  to  complete  the 


24  American  Book-plates. 

torment  of  the  discovery,  let  it  be  impossible  to 
fmd  out  who  has  taken  the  desired  volume, 
or  to  get  any  clew  as  to  when  it  went  or  where ! 

Private  Library  of  J.  N'.   Candce  Cole,   This  book  is 
not  loaned.     Matt.  xxv.  9. 


Read  not  books  alone :  but  men,  and  be  careful  to  read 
tJiysclf.      TJie  property  of  JoJin  Lambert,  South  Reading. 


To  Borrozvers  of  Books. 
You  remember,  my  friend,  I  freely  comply  d 
With  the  favour  you  asked  nic,  and  fully  relied 
On  a  favour  fj'om  yoti,  which,  thd'  promised,  I  find. 
As  it  hasn't  been  granted,  is  out  of  your  mind, 
To  return  in  due  time  ivhat  L've  wanted  to  see, 
The  Book,  zuhich  'tis  long  since  yoji  borroiv  d  of  me. 
Another  I  noiv  with  reluctance  implore, 
'Tis  only  to  ask  that  you  borrozo  no  more. 


Stolen  from  J.   W.  Houx, 


Book-keeping  taiigJit  in  three  zvords, 
Never  lend  them. 

The  would-be  borrower  who  finds  these  senti- 
ments in  the  book  he  was  about  to  ask  for  will 
scarcely  be  encouraged  to  do  so,  and  for  direct- 
ness they  are  exceeded  by  only  one  example,  in 
which  the  owner's  nam.e  is  followed  by  the  simple 
declaration,  He  does  not  lend  books.  The  motto 
on  the  plate  of  the  late  Gcoj-ge  Ticknoi^ — Snitm 
ciiique.  To  every  man  his  ozun  —  was  also  calcu- 
lated to  discourage  the  borrower. 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


25 


But  some  people  do  lend  books,  and  have  them 
returned  too,  —  in  good  second-hand  condition. 
And  so  it  comes  about  that  the  proper  use  of  books 
is  made  the  subject  of  another  class  of  mottoes. 

My  Friend  !    SJiouId yoii  this  book  peruse, 

Please  to  protect  it  from  abuse : 

Nor  soil,  nor  stain,  nor  mark  its  page. 

Nor  give  it  preinatnre  old  age : 

Ajid,  ivJien  it  has  effected  all, 

Please  to  return  it  ere  I  call. 


The  following  verse  is  common  property  and 
is  found  on  several  plates  :  — 

If  thou  art  borrowed  by  a  friend, 

Right  zvelconie  shall  he  be 
To  read,  to  sf?idy,  not  to  lend. 

And  to  return  to  me. 

Not  that  imparted  learning  doth 

Diminish  learning  s  store. 
But  books,  I  find,  if  often  lent. 

Return  to  me  no  moi'e. 


26  American  Book-plates. 

Read  slowly, 
Pause  frequently, 
T J  link  seriously, 

Return  duly  with  the  corners  of  the  leaves  not  turned 
down.  

Neither  blemish  this  book,  nor  the  leaves  double  down, 
Nor  let  id  it  to  each  idle  friend  in  the  town : 
Return  it  zvhen  read,  —  or  if  lost  please  supply 
Another',  as  good  to  the  mind  and  the  eye. 
With  right  and  zvitJi  reason  you  need  but  be  friends 
And  each  book  in  my  study  your  pleasure  attends. 


If  through  respect  or  love  I  lend 
This  book  unto  my  worthy  friend, 
He  must  not  soil,  abuse,  nor  tear. 
But  read  ivitJi  diligence  and  care  ; 
And  zvhen  its  contents  you  have  learned, 
Remember,  it  must  be  Returned. 

On  the  plate  of  Samuel  JV.  Francis  appear  the 
following  lines :  — 

Arty  one  may  borrow. 
But  a  zcntlcrnan  returns. 


The  property 

of 
Thomas  C.  Cozvan. 

Borrozver, 

read,  mark,  and  Avoid 

tJie  former  paj't 

Psalm  xxxvn.  2i. 


\¥  you  borrow,  freely  use  it, 
Take  great  care  and  don't  abuse  it . 
Read,  but  ncitJicr  lose  nor  lend  it. 
Then  unto  the  owner  send  it. 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


27 


Never  open  a  book  farther  than  to  bring  both  sides  of 
the  cover  on  to  the  same  plane.  Never  lend  a  borrowed 
book,  but  return  it  as  soon  as  you  are  through  ivith  it,  so 
that  the  owner  may  not  be  deprived  of  its  use.  You  may 
think  this  a  strange  request,  but  I  find  that  although 
many  of  my  friends  are  poor  ai'ithmeticians,  they  are 
nearly  all  of  them  good  book-keepers. 


In  strong  contrast  to  all  the  preceding  are 
those  mottoes  of  generous  souls  who  find  no 
pleasure  in  withholding  their  treasures,  but  who 
wish  to  have  it  understood  that  they  are  for  the 
use  of  all ;  not  very  many  are  bold  enough  to  thus 
advertise  their  willingness  to  lend,  but  a  few  do 
so,  and  generally  by  the  use  of  the  Latin,  Sidi 
et  mnicis,  or  et  amicoruvi. 

Sentiments  in  praise  of  books  and  reading  are 
not    uncommon,    and    quotations    from    classic 


28  Americmt  Book-plates. 

writers  both  in  prose  and  poetry  do  good  service 
on  book-plates.     Pope's  well-known  lines  — 

A  little  learning  is  a  dangerous  thing, 
Drink  deep  or  taste  not  the  Pierian  Spring ; 
Where  shallow  draughts  intoxicate  the  brain, 
But  drinking  largely  sobers  us  again. 

are  found  on  an  old  American  plate. 
On  a  recent  New  York  plate, — 

Far  more  seemly  luere  it  for  thee  to  have  thy  Study 
full  of  Books  than  thy  purse  full  of  money.     Lilly. 

On  a  Maine  plate, — 

Who  learns  ami  learns  but  does  not  what  he  leainis, 
Is  one  zvho  plozvs  and plozvs  but  never  soivs. 


WeigJi  xvell  each  tJiougJit,  each  sentence  freely  scan. 
In  Reason's  balance  try  the  works  of  man. 
Be  bias  d  not  by  those  iv ho  praise  or  blame, 
Nor,  Servile,  Yield  opijiion  to  a  name. 

On  a  recent  Boston  plate, — 

Un  bon  livre  est  un  bon  ami. 

On  a  recent  Western  plate, — 

A  jolly  goodc  booke, 
WJiereon  to  looke, 
Is  better  to  me  than  golde. 

On  a  recent  Washington  plate,  — 

A    trusty  villain,  sir,  that  very  oft  when  I  am  dull 
witJi  care  and  melancJioly  lightens  my  hu)nour. 


EXXmEES  i^X,H©LLS^(^*S^W®RirH,  I 


29 


30  Ainerican  Book-plates. 

The  mottoes  on  the  plates  of  those  who  have 
achieved  distinction  have  a  peculiar  interest,  es- 
pecially when  chosen  by  the  owners  themselves. 
The  plate  of  Henry  W.  Longfellow  bears  the 
following  line :  — 

Noil  clamor  sed  amor, 

which  is  from  an  unknown  author  and  is  found 
in  the  foUowinsf  verse  :  — 

Non  vox  sed  votnm, 
Non  chordas  sed  cor, 
Noji  clamor  sed  amor, 
Sojiat  in  aure  Dei. 

Not  voice  but  voiv, 

Not  harp-stj'ing^  but  heart-string, 

Not  loudness  but  love, 

Sound  in  the  ear  of  God. 

The  motto  of  Geoi^ge  Washington,  —  Exitiis 
acta  probat,  is  not  given  in  the  accepted  lists  as 
the  family  motto  of  his  ancestors,  but  it  may 
have  been  such.  The  meaning  of  it  has  brought 
out  criticism  recently  because  of  its  Jesuitical 
sound,  —  "  The  end  shoivs  the  deed'.'  But  this  may 
also  be  taken  as  a  patriotic  utterance  in  view 
of  the  part  of  the  illustrious  owner  of  this  plate 
in  the  Revolution. 

On  the  plate  of  William  Penn  we  see  a  motto 
most  fitting  for  the  character  he  sustained,  Diini 
claviim  rect2im  teneani — "  While  I  hold  to  glory, 
let  me  hold  to  rightT  In  the  plate  the  third  word 
is  omitted,  as  the  engraver  found  the  motto  too 
long  for  the  space  reserved,  and  through  some 


v^ecno^    u)(Maca 


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OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


32  American  Book-plates. 

blunder  the  r  in  clariim  is  changed  to  a  z\  which 
makes  no  sense  at  all. 

On  the  plate  of  George  Bancroft,  the  late  his- 
torian, a  chubby  cherub  bears  a  panel  on  which 
is  the  motto,  Siirsii^n  coi^da.  Another  plate  was 
also  used  by  Mr.  Bancroft  which  was  in  all 
respects  like  the  above,  except  that  the  motto 
was  changed  to  EIX  <I>AO^. 

The  plate  of  the  late  Mr.  George  W.  Childs 
has  the  following  motto  whose  appropriate- 
ness is  evident  at  once, —  TJie  pen  is  mightier 
than  the  siuord.  Above  this  a  second  motto 
of  equal  appropriateness  is  given, — Nihil  sine 
labore. 

On  the  plate  of  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 
Per  ampliora  ad  altiora  is  given  upon  a  ribbon 
under  a  beautiful  drawino;  of  the  "chambered 
nautilus." 


V  I  X  L  I  A  M       F  R  F.  S  C  C)  T  T 


Instances  of  mottoes  which  are  cleverly  made 
to  carry  some  meaning,  or  some  word,  which  will 
be  seen  at  a  glance  to  be  taken  from  the  name 
of  the  owner,  are  found  often. 

On  the  plate  of  Harold  Clarence  Ernst  this 
motto  is  given,  Ernst  ist  das  leben. 


Name-labels  and  Mottoes. 


33 


On  the  plate  of  George  Ctirry,  D.D.,  —  Sic 
ciirre  capias. 

On  the  plate  of  Ediuavd  Spencer  Dix, — 
Qiioci  dixi  id  feci. 


In  concluding  this  list  of  mottoes  two  from  the 
Welsh  can  be  instanced,  one  on  the  plate  of  a 
New  York  collector  of  Welshiana,  which  is  Cared 
Doeth  Yr  Encilic,  meaning,  "  TJie  learned  love  the 


34 


American  Book-plates. 


things  of  the  pastr  The  other  is  on  a  Washing- 
ton plate,  and  reads  thus,  A  fynno  Dzuy  y  Fycid^ 
meaning,  "  What  God  wills,  will  be.'' 

In  the  Hst  of  languages  used  on  book-plates, 
we  must  now  include  the  Volapiik,  for  we  have 
the  first  instance  of  its  use  already  in  a  New 
York  plate;  the  motto  reading,  Menad bal piikbal, 
and  meaning,  "  One  htunanity,  one  langtiage'' 


^A/.^^>9i£yC^ieuc< 


ARMORIAL    BOOK-PLATES. 


OOK-PL  AXES  admit  of  many 

kinds  of  extraneous  ornamen- 
tation, and  wholly  apart  from 
the  special  function  of  record- 
ing the  ownership  of  books, 
they  serve  as  expressions  of 
artistic  taste ;  they  lend  them- 
selves readily  to  many  forms 
of  design,  and  have  passed 
through  several  changes  or  "  styles  "  in  the  three 
hundred  years  of  their  existence;  they  can  be 
dignified  or  flippant,  serious  or  punning,  of  artistic 
beauty  or  positive  deformity ;  they  can  express 
the  owner's  choice  of  reading  and  can  preserve 
lines  from  his  favorite  authors ;  can  convey  warn- 
ing or  invitation,  and  can,  in  short,  be  made  a 
very  personal  affair. 

The  first  book-plates  were  heraldic.  In  those 
early  and,  in  some  senses,  good  old  days,  before 
the  schoolmaster  was  abroad  in  the  land,  when 
learning  was  the  possession  of  the  aristocrats 
and  the  churchmen  only,  and  consequently  when 
handwriting  was  not  in  use  among  the  people, 
families  were  distinguished  by  emblems  which 
were  known  of  all.  These  heraldic  devices  were 
painted  on  their  shields,  carved  upon  their  walls, 

35 


36 


American  Book-plates. 


engraved  upon  their  breast-plates,  woven  upon 
their  banners  and  their  tapestries,  displayed  upon 
their  own  persons,  upon  those  of  their  depend- 
ents, and  even  upon  their  animals  and  the  furni- 
ture and  books  of  their  homes  ;  even  the  purely 


)^mey  at  Law,  iu^W^iia)^ 


ornamental  and  ephemeral  luxuries  came  to  be 
adorned  with  the  family  coat-of-arms. 

The  armorial  bearings,  stamped  upon  the  back 
or  sides  of  a  book,  or  printed  upon  paper  and 
pasted  within  the  cover,  were  sufficient,  without 
a  name,  to  identify  the  family  to  which  it  be- 
longed.    Libraries  descended  from  father  to  son, 


Armorial  Book-plates.  37 

and  were  kept  intact  for  generations  ;  and  the 
family  arms  and  motto  were  the  most  appropriate 
label  possible. 

Warren,  one  of  the  first  to  study  book-plates  and 
to  give  to  others  the  benefit  of  his  researches,  has 
divided  the  armorial  plates  into  general  classes, 
and  has  given  them  suitable  names,  which  are 
accepted  the  world  over.  A  considerable  number 
of  subdivisions  has  been  made  ;  and  while  they 
may  be  serviceable  where  book-plates  are  plenti- 
ful, they  are  but  an  incumbrance  to  the  collector 
of  the  early  plates  of  America,  for  our  examples 
are  few  in  number,  and  are  quite  sufficiently  dis- 
tinguished —  for  the  purpose  of  the  present  work, 
at  least  —  by  the  following  styles:  Early  Eng- 
lish, Jacobean,  Chippendale,  Ribbon,  and  Wreath. 
Distinctive,  easily  remembered  characteristics 
pertain  to  each  of  these,  and  fairly  accurate 
dates  of  their  adoption  and  continuance  can  be 
given. 

Adopting  then  the  nomenclature  of  Warren, 
and  following  his  lead,  we  come  now  to  consider 
the  meaning  of  the  different  styles  and  the  diver- 
sity of  their  designs. 

The  very  earliest  class  is  the  Early  English,  in 
which  the  shield  of  arms  is  present  with  all  its 
accessories.  In  these  plates  the  mantling  is  very 
profuse, and  in  large  full-rounded  curves  surrounds 
three,  and  often  all  four,  sides  of  the  shield.  This  is 
the  only  ornamentation,  iiothing  incidental  being 
added  as  yet ;  the  name  of  the  owner  is  usually 
or  often  accompanied  by  a  title  and  address,  and 
quite  frequently  also  by  the  date. 


38  American  Book-plates. 

We    have    but    few    examples    of    this    style; 

•perhaps  the  most  satisfactory  as  an  example  of 

the  class  will  be  the  plate  oi  Joseph  Dudley^  dated 

1754.     (This   plate   was    really   engraved   much 


earlier  than  this.  Hurd  erased  the  original  name, 
and  cut  the  present  one  with  the  date  in  its 
place.)  In  this  the  mantling,  running  out  beyond 
the  edges  of  the  shield,  curls  both  upward  and 
downward,  and  conipletely  envelops  three  sides ; 


Armorial  Book-plates. 


39 


the  design  takes  on  a  strong  resemblance  to  oak 
leaves,  and  a  single  leaf  of  this  is  engraved  upon 
the  helmet:  the  background,  or  space  enclosed 
within  the  scroll-work,  is  filled  in  with  perpen- 
dicular lines  which  might  be  taken  for  the  tincture 
gules;  in  the  name-bracket,  the  oak-leaf  pattern 
is  again  made  use  of,  forming  a  neat  finish  to  the 
ends. 


In  the  plate  of  The  Honourable  Wm.  Car- 
michael,  Esqr.,  the  mantling  is  not  so  completely 
transformed  into  the  oak-leaf  design,  although  the 
latter  is  here  apparent.  The  plate  oijcr.  Dtinimer, 
Anglus  Amcricanus  is  peculiar  in  that  the  space 
enclosed  by  the  scroll-work  is  lined  with  the  solid 
brick  wall  of  the  later  Jacobean  style ;  in  this  the 


40 


American  Book-plates. 


mantling  is  less  striking  than  in  the  Dudley,  but 
it  surrounds  the  shield  well,  and  curves  upward 
about  the  crest.  In  the  Miuot  plate,  which  is 
very  peculiar  and  rather  difficult  to  classify,  the 


Qy£i/?t^ 


mantling  is  very  unworthy  of  the  name ;  it  does 
not  proceed  from  the  helmet,  nor  indeed  from  any- 
where in  particular,  but  in  wild  and  very  eccentric 
fashion,  envelops  the  crest  and  most  of  the  shield; 
the  field  of  the  shield  is  tinctured  azure,  and  it  is 


Armorial  Book-plates.  41 

enclosed  within  a  border  or  moulding  which  nearly 
surrounds  it,  but  leaves  a  portion  at  the  base  un- 
protected ;  a  further  peculiarity  of  this  mouldino- 
is  that  it  is  an  integral  part  of  the  helmet,  for  it 
curves  over  at  the  top  of  the  shield  and  actually 
proceeds  from  the  helmet. 

A  very  fine  example  of  this  style  is  the  Francis 
Pac^e  plate. 

The  next  style  is  the  Jacobean,  commonly 
spoken  of  as  existing  from  about  1700  to  about 
1745;  the  styles  overlap  naturally,  and  no  hard- 
and-fast  period  can  be  established  within  which 
only  one  particular  style  of  plate  w^as  used.  Exam- 
ples of  the  Jacobean  plate  are  found  in  England 
which  would  date  later  than  1745,  and  the  style 
which  succeeded  this  was  used  somewhat  before 
the  year  which  begins  its  accepted  period :  the 
dates  of  the  periods,  then,  are  approximate.  The 
names  by  which  the  different  styles  are  known 
have  all  a  good  reason  for  their  acceptance, 
although  each  one  was  suggested  by  differing 
circumstances. 

The  style  of  book-plate  in  vogue  at  the  time  of 
the  last  James  is  designated  as  Jacobean;  and, 
while  it  continued  in  use  long  after  the  death  of 
the  deposed  monarch  who  gave  it  its  name,  any 
change  in  its  designation  would  be  misleading. 
The  principal  features  of  this  style  are  its  heavy, 
carved  appearance,  the  evenly  balanced  propor- 
tions, and  the  exact  coincidence  of  the  two  sides 
of  the  design.  The  shield,  always  of  regular  out- 
line, is  usually  placed  upon  an  ornamental  frame 
whose  background,  or  lining,  is  either  filled   in 


42 


American  Book-plates. 


with  a  fish-scale  pattern,  diapered  into  the  lozenge 
form  or  built  up  solidly  with  a  wall  of  brick.  This 
lining  shows  at  both  sides-  of  the  shield,  below, 
and,  less  often,  above  it ;  its  sides  are  convoluted  ; 
they  run  out  in  foldings  and  scrolls  resembling 
the  carving  on  wood,  and  are  often  worked  into 


TBEmmEiI^KILJ^SE£S  K 

elaborate  patterns :  sometimes,  too,  the  design  is 
surrounded  by  a  carved  moulding  which  makes 
a  heavy  frame  of  rectangular  form  and  massive 
appearance.  This  style  of  plate,  well-handled,  is 
exceedingly  handsome,  and  is  capable  of  more 
repose  and  dignity  than  any  other.  Very  forbid- 
ding indeed,  and  over-solemn,  are  some  examples, 
but  in  the  main  the  purely  Jacobean  plates  are 


Armorial  Book-plates.  -43 

very  pleasing.  Among  the  accessories  usually 
found  are  a  scallop-shell  with  the  concave  side 
turned  towards  the  observer,  and  placed  either 
below  the  shield  to  support  it,  or  above  it  to  set 
it  off:  this  shell  is  always  looked  for  in  the  Jaco- 
bean plates,  and  indeed  a  shelly  motive  is  apparent 
throughout  very  many  examples.  The  helmet  and 
mantling  are  conspicuous,  especially  the  latter, 
as  it  is  often  enlarged  and  emphasized  by  being- 
drawn  into  the  general  scheme  of  decoration ; 
very  full,  reaching  far  down  the  sides  of  the 
shield-frame,  and  indeed  often  curiously  woven 
into  the  convolutions  of  the  frame  itself,  it  at 
times  loses  its  significance :  grotesque  faces  some- 
times peer  from  the  ornamentation,  and  heads  of 
satyrs  and  demons  are  frequently  used  to  rest  the 
base  of  the  shield  upon.  In  some  instances  the 
name  is  placed  upon  a  bracket  similar  to  the  upper 
part  of  the  plate  in  decoration,  or,  again,  it  may  be 
seen  upon  a  small  curtain  or  lambrequin  caught 
up  at  the  ends  with  string.  Very  often,  too,  no 
setting  is  provided  for  the  name,  and  it  is  simply 
engraved  beneath  the  design.  Eagles,  lions,  ter- 
mini, cherubs,  and  sometimes  cornucopice  of  fruit 
or  flowers,  angels  blowing  upon  trumpets,  and 
stiff  stalks  of  flowers  are  introduced  into  the  orna- 
mentation. But  these  do  not  succeed  in  enlivening 
the  style  of  the  plate  materially,  for  it  is  essen- 
tially heavy,  conservative,  and  formal  in  design 
and  spirit.  No  graceful  airiness  rests  upon  it,  and 
it  provokes  no  joyous  sentiment,  but  rather  rouses 
respect  and  enforces  stateliness.  The  general  ap- 
pearance of  the   Jacobean  plate  is  as   if  carved 


44  American  Book-plates. 

from  wood.  We  do  not  expect  old  carving  to  be 
anything  but  solid  and  immobile,  and  these  char- 
acteristics are  present  in  this  style  of  book-plate. 
Indeed,  Warren,  in  his  chapter  on  the  Jacobean 
style,  says  that  no  antiquary  can  fail  to  note  the 
strong  similarity  of  treatment  and  design  between 
the  wood-carving  preserved  in  the  churches  of  the 
time  of  Charles  the  Second  and  the  mouldings 
on  the  monuments  of  the  same  period,  and  the 
book-plates  of  the  style  we  have  considered.  Our 
finest  example  of  the  Jacobean  book-plate  is  found 
in  the  work  of  Thomas  Johnston,  who  made  the 
plate  of  William  P.  Smith,  A.M.  This  is  a 
typical  example  of  the  later  Jacobean  style,  and 
is  worthy  of  particular  study.  The  Elizabethan 
shield  is  set  against  a  frame  which  is  very  elabo- 
rately carved  and  ornamented ;  the  lining  is  cov- 
ered with  the  fish-scale  pattern,  and  this  extends 
also  to  the  arms  and  convolutions  upon  the  sides. 
At  the  base  of  the  shield  the  scallop-shell  is  in 
position  as  prescribed,  and  is  surrounded  by  a 
little  frame  of  its  own  ;  the  mantling  is  very  slight 
indeed,  breaking  out  from  the  wreath  and  also 
from  the  lower  part  of  the  helmet,  in  short  and 
simple  spirals.  The  motto  is  found  on  a  ribbon 
which  is  gracefully  strung  upon  the  scrolls  at  the 
bottom  of  the  design. 

In  the  Spooucr  plate,  by  Hurd,  the  shield,  also 
of  Elizabethan  pattern,  is  set  against  a  diapered 
background;  beneath  the  shield,  within  a  little 
frame,  the  head  of  a  sphinx  is  seen ;  term-figures 
are  placed  in  the  scroll-work  at  either  side,  and 
from   their  hands   depend   bouquets   of  flowers; 


45 


^^"VERs/Ty 


46 


Ajucricau  Book-plates. 


the  crest  is  overarched  with  a  bit  of  old  scallop- 
shell,  and  the  motto  is  given  on  a  plain  ribbon 
which,  wholly  unsupported,  maintains  a  curved 
position  under  the  whole  design.     In  the  Andrezu 


(Sandrew-tyterI) 

Tyler  plate,  also  by  Hurd,  a  grotesque  face  sup- 
ports the  shield,  the  lining  is  elaborately  diapered, 
and  a  festoon  of  cloth  depends  from  the  lower 
scrolls  of  the  frame.  In  the  small-sized  plate  of 
John  Allen,  the  lining  is  embellished  with  the 
simple  lattice-work,  in  two  patterns. 


^.ca6-  ^{traeo/nt. 


Armorial  Book-plates. 


47 


Closely  succeeding  the  Jacobean,  and  indeed 
coming  into  use  before  the  latter  was  wholly  dis- 
carded, the  Chippendale  style  of  book-plate  may 


be  regarded  as  in  a  way  an  evolution  from  the 
Jacobean.  If  the  parent  was  dignified  and  con- 
servative, the  offspring  was  dainty  and  progressive; 
the  Jacobean   style    maintained  its   dignity    and 


48 


American  Book-plates. 


decorous  nicety  to  the  end,  but  the  Chippendale, 
which  started  in  with  a  taking  air  of  modest  and 
light  gracefulness,  in  strong  and  pleasing  contrast 
to  the  solidity  of  its  predecessor,  rapidly  assumed 
a  most  elaborate  and  ornate  manner,  and  finally 


'm^ 


sank  into  a  wild,  riotous,  and  well-nigh  sensuous 
profusion  of  decorative  expression,  which  being 
too  heavy  for  it  to  sustain,  bore  it  down  to  its  end. 
The  character  of  the  Chippendale  plate,  while  at- 
tractive and  beautiful  in  its  pure  form,  had  essential 
elements  of  weakness,  which,  hardly  able  to  resist 
development,  were  certain  to  cause  its  downfall. 


Armorial  Book-plates. 


49 


As  is  natural  to  suppose,  the  name  was  bestowed 
upon  this  style  because  of  its  assimilation  of  the 
ornate  and  liowery  spirit  which  the  famous  T. 
Chippendale  at  this  period  introduced  into  wood- 
carving  and  upholstery.  As  compared  with  its 
immediate  predecessor,  the  differences  in  this 
style   of   plate   are    seen    to    be   principally   the 


!NfylesCooperZZZ>CollRegisNovEborin 
AnericaJtefes^etCoHRegina?  deOson-Sociussci 

liberating  of  the  decorative  features  from  the  stiff- 
ness which  thralled  them  in  the  Jacobean.  Not 
now  resembling  ponderous  carvings  in  oak  and 
mahogany,  but  rising  free  and  unrestrained,  the 
rose  branches  and  sprigs  seem  to  be  copied  from 
Nature  herself ;  not  arranged  with  careful  nicety 
and  labored  uniformity  as  formerly,  but  springing 
from  any  convenient  niche,  they  add  grace  and 
delicacy  to  the  whole  design.   The  helmet  is  seldom 


50 


American  Book-plates. 


seen  in  this  style  of  plate,  the  mantling  is  con- 
sequently absent,  and  the  bracket  supporting  the 
shield  of  arms  undergoes  a  transformation  ;  the 
convolutions  and  scrolls  on  the  sides  become  finer, 


freer,  and  less  imposing;  the  shield  is  never  found 
of  any  set  rectangular  pattern,  but  often  is  pear- 
shaped,  shell-like  in  form,  or  indeed  not  unlike  the 
oyster  or  the  human  ear  in  general  outline ;  the 
scallop  shell  which  formerly  serv^ed  as  a  base  for 
the   shield  to  rest  on,  is  now  broken  into   dainty 


Armorial  Book-plates.  51 

fragments  with  the  pectinated  edges  disposed 
about  the  shield  itself ;  the  name-frame  is  no 
longer  a  cloth  curtain,  but  is  a  scroll  with  indented 
edges  and  curling  outlines. 


^'^j-J!fi©A\v3crAW'.lnv:  tt  »^cuip.^^2j>>, 


In  its  highest  development  the  Chippendale 
plate  is  a  beautiful  piece  of  work ;  the  richness  of 
its  curves,  its  plentitude  of  graceful  scrolls,  its 
profusion  of  roses  in  garlands  or  on  the  stem,  and 
•the  elaborate  detail  noticeable  in    all  its    parts, 


52  American  Book-plates. 

combine  to  make  a  plate  of  delightful  airiness  and 
dainty  nicety  ;  but  in  the  hands  of  weak  desisrners, 
as  pointed  out  by  Warren,  its  possibilities  of  oyer- 
ornamentation  were  seized  upon,  and  we  find  the 
most  unexpected  and  incongruous  assortment  of 
figures  from  life,  architectural  fragments,  alle- 
gorical subjects  and  other  features  not  to  be 
included  in  any  particular  class,  occupying  con- 
venient places  about  the  escutcheon ;  we  find 
sleek  shepherds  clad  in  the  fashionable  clothes  of 
the  day,  —  knee-breeches,  rufiled  shirt  with  Byron 
collar,  large  felt  hats,  and  buckled  shoes ;  we  see 
would-be  shepherdesses  in  big  hooped-skirts,  yer\' 
low-necked  bodices  and  slight  waists,  wearing 
frizzly  hair  and  Gainsborough  hats,  and  carr}-ing 
dainty  crooks ;  scantily  draped  figures  recline 
under  the  trees,  while  attendant  cupids  make 
music  or  hasten  up  with  books.  Turning  from 
these  pastoral  scenes,  we  come  across  plates  which 
haye  a  most  frightful  dragon  with  scaly  body, 
forked  tail,  and  fier}',  bulging  eyes,  who  spits  fire 
as  he  crouches  among  the  roses ;  in  others  we 
find  cornices,  columns,  arches,  and  urns;  fountains, 
hand-glasses,  ships,  nautical  instruments,  lambs, 
dogs,  —  in  short,  it  is  useless  to  name  the  great 
number  of  irrelevant  articles  which  were  made  use 
of.  The  plate  was  made  to  carr}^  any  amount  of 
heterosreneous  ornamentation  which  the  desisrner 
fancied ;  it  seems  in  some  cases  as  if  the  details 
w^ere  employed  with  rightful  reference  to  the 
tastes  or  pursuits  of  the  owner,  but  in  the  greater 
number  the  fancy  was  allowed  free  play. 

Hurd's  work  furnishes  us  with  the  best  examples 


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Armorial  Book-plates. 


53 


of  the  pure  Chippendale  style;  the  Chandler 
plate,  the  Wentworth,  and  the  Dumeresque  are 
good  examples ;  Dawkins  gives  us  the  later  and 
debased    Chippendale    with    all  its  profusion    of 


extrinsic  ornamentation.  The  Samuel  Vaughan 
plate  is  a  very  fine  example  of  good  Chippen- 
daleism,  and  may  be  taken  as  a  standard  by  which 
to  recognize  the  features  of  this  style.  The  Robt. 
Dinwiddle  plate  is  a  fine  example  of  this  style, 


54 


American  Book-plates. 


though    the    heraldry   may  be    questioned:    this, 
according  to  Hardy,  is  of  Scotch  make. 

In  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath  style,  which  came 
into  vogue  in   England  about    1770,  and  in  the 


tl:^ 


United  States  not  much  before  1790,  we  note 
a  return  to  simplicity.  The  later  Chippendale 
plates,  with  their  over-burdened  frames,  now  yield 
to  this  quiet  style,  which  is  unassuming  and  very 
pleasing.     In    this    the    shield   is    usually    heart- 


lOHN  -wiu-LXAtss  JLSQ^ 


Annorial  Book-plates. 


55 


shaped,  is  not  set  against  a  background,  and  has 
absolutely  no  carved  work  about  it ;  the  shield 
is  often  unsupported,  but  is  sometimes  hung  by 
ribbons  or  festoons  from  wall-pins  above ;  the 
decoration,  as  the  name  suggests,  consists  princi- 


pally of  ribbons,  and  wreathing  in  various  forms. 
At  the  present  day  we  use  in  our  wall-paper, 
upholstery,  and  wood-carving  on  furniture  and 
mantels,  and  even  on  outside  cornices,  a  certain 
form  of  orarland  or  festoon  tied  with  ribbon  which 
we   call   "  Colonial " ;  in    a  general  way  this    re- 


56  American  Book-plates. 

sembles  the  decoration  features  of  the  Ribbon  and 
Wreath  book-plate.  From  wall-pins  with  fancy 
oval  or  round  heads,  festoons  of  flowers  depend 
above  the  shield ;  branches  of  holly  and  palm, 
often  tied  with  a  ribbon  whose  fluttering  ends 
bear  a  motto  or  the  name,  are  crossed  beneath  the 
shield,  and  their  graceful  sprays  extend  up  either 
side.  Some  of  the  festoons  are  rich  with  blossoms, 
others,  more  slender,  are  of  leaves  only,  while  a 
few  are  made  of  cloth  ;  the  full  garlands  are  usually 
hung  from  above  the  shield,  while  the  thinner 
style  is  draped  in  any  place  and  manner  accept- 
able to  the  designer,  and  with  more  or  less  of 
gracefulness,  as  his  skill  permitted.  This  style  of 
plate  calls  for  nothing  more  than  its  legitimate 
features  to  render  it  effective  and  satisfactory,  and 
in  general  the  plates  are  in  the  pure  style ;  but  in 
some  of  the  New  York  plates,  there  are  books, 
writing  materials,  and  bits  of  landscape  introduced 
under  the  shield. 

The  Thomas  Johnston  plate  by  Maverick  is  a 
fine  example  of  this  style.  Maverick  was  the 
most  prolific  worker  in  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath, 
while  Callender  and  Rollinson  also  used  it  very 
largely.  The  Prosper  IVe/more  p\3.te  by  Maverick, 
the  /oh7i  Sullivan  by  Callender,  and  the  Horatio 
ShcpJicrd  Moat  by  Rollinson,  are  all  excellent 
examples. 


PICTORIAL  AND  ALLEGORICAL  BOOK- 
PLATES, AND  PLATES  OF  COLLEGES, 
LIBRARIES,   AND    SOCIETIES. 


ESIGNS  which  are  wholly  pic- 
torial or  which  are  meant  to 
convey  meaning  by  their  sym- 
bolism are  not  very  numerous 
with  us.  This  style  of  design 
is  no  better  suited  to  the 
plates  of  public  libraries, 
schools,  and  societies,  than 
to  those  of  individuals,  but 
nearly  all  of  our  early  examples  of  this  style  are 
found  to  belong  to  the  former  class. 

One  of  the  early  personal  plates  of  this  kind 
is  that  of  James  Pai'kcr,  who  was  a  collector  of 
curios,  medals,  and  books.  He  was  a  conductor 
on  the  old  Western  Railroad,  and  ran  the  first 
train  between  Worcester  and  Springfield.  This 
plate  is  fully  described  in  the  List. 

Of  an  entirely  different  style  is  the  plate  en- 
graved by  Harris  for  Henry  Andrews.  This  is 
pictorial,  introducing  classical  features,  but  hardly 
rising  to  the  height  of  allegory.  The  plate  of 
Bloonijield  Mcllvaine  is  also  pictorial,  and  prob- 
ably allegorical,  as  the  figure  seems  to  represent 
History.     In   the   Samuel  Parker  plate  we  have 

57 


58 


Pictorial  mid  A llegorical  Plates.    59 

allegory  with  a  label  to  identify  it ;  for  the  bank 
on  which  the  muse  of  History  reclines  is  labelled 
Clio.  A  very  peculiar  pictorial  plate  is  that  of 
Edzvard  Pcnuiugtoii,  which  seems  to  represent 
an  overflowing  reservoir. 


The  plates  of  McMtirtrie,  Kip,  Mann,  Rtisscll, 
Swett  and  Hooper  are  good  examples  of  the 
class.  Examples  could  be  given  at  greater  length, 
but  as  all  are  carefully  described  in  the  List,  the 
reader  is  referred  to  it. 

The  most  interesting  of    the  old  society  and 


l^Mw^onM^'M^cfel}''  Lib^ab:^! 


liiiiMiiiiiMi 


60 


6i 


62  American  Book-plates. 

library  plates  are  the  three  of  the  New  York 
Society  Library,  the  two  of  the  libraries  in  Farm- 
ington,  Conn.,  and  that  of  the  Society  for  Pj^opa- 
gatiiig  the  Gospel  in  Foj^eigji  Parts. 

In  the  plates  of  the  Society  Library  allegory 
is  rampant.  Minerva  appears  in  all  of  them,  and 
in  the  two  by  Maverick  is  the  principal  figure. 
In  both  of  these  she  appears  to  an  American 
Indian,  whose  attitude  shows  his  deep  apprecia- 
tion of  the  benefits  of  education  as  offered  by  the 
resplendent  goddess.  In  one  case  she  is  repre- 
sented as  having  just  arrived  from  Olympus,  and 
is  still  encircled  by  clouds;  in  the  other,  she 
seems  quite  at  home  in  the  alcove  of  the  library, 
and  has  taken  a  suitable  volume  from  the  shelf 
for  the  use  of  the  savage.  In  the  plate  by  Gal- 
laudet  for  this  library  the  allegory  is  extended, 
and  other  prominent  inhabitants  of  the  abode  of 
the  celestials  are  present.  The  arts  and  sciences 
which  the  books  of  the  library  treat  of  are  rep- 
resented by  implements  and  symbols  easily 
recognized. 

The  plate  of  the  Monthly  Library  in  Farm- 
ington  also  uses  allegory.  The  designer  and 
engraver  of  this  plate  was  Martin  Bull,  an  old 
deacon  in  the  village,  who  was  quite  an  inter- 
esting man.  He  was  a  goldsmith,  a  maker  of 
silver  buttons,  and  spoons  ;  a  manufacturer  of  salt- 
petre when  needed  by  the  army,  a  conductor  of 
church  music,  town  treasurer  for  eight  years, 
clerk  of  probate  for  thirty-nine  years,  a  strong 
patriot,  and  a  writer  of  long  and  appallingly 
solemn  letters  to  the  youth  of  the  village  when 


•/ywi/ta  a.  J^iioo^  u.yiu^/n€/£/"i:c^ 


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63 


64  American  Book-plates. 

at  college.  The  library  was  founded  in  1795, — 
about  as  soon  as  our  soldier-citizens  could  settle 
down  into  reading  stay-at-homes,  —  and  was  con- 
ducted upon  the  plan  of  monthly  exchanges.  On 
the  first  Sabbath  of  the  month  all  members  would 
assemble  in  the  evening  and  pass  in  their  books 
and  receive  others,  the  choice  being  auctioned  off. 
Two  dollars  and  a  half  a  month  was  thus  realized, 
and  the  meeting  was  the  event  of  the  month  to 
the  sturdy  inhabitants  of  the  quiet  town,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  younger  folk,  to  whom  it  must 
have  afforded  coveted  opportunities  for  pleasant 
meetings,  and  quiet  walks  along  the  lanes.  On 
the  first  day  of  the  new  century,  January,  1801, 
the  library  changed _  its  name  to  that  which 
appears  upon  the  book-plate,  and  on  which  the 
good  deacon  exhibited  a  specimen  of  his  highest 
art.  Previously  to  this  date  it  had  gone  under 
the  name  of  "  The  Library  in  the  First  Society 
in  Farmington,"  and  its  first  book-plate,  probably 
engraved  by  the  good  deacon,  had  the  simple 
name  with  no  pictorial  accessories. 

Contemporaneously  with  this,  another  library 
called  the  Village  Library,  was  in  operation,  and 
continued  until  1826,  when  it  was  merged  with  a 
third.  This  library  also  had  a  book-plate,  but  it 
was  undoubtedly  beyond  the  powers  of  the  en- 
graver of  its  forerunners.  In  this  we  see  the 
interior  of  a  room,  in  which  a  young  lady  patron 
of  the  library  is  storing  her  mind  with  those  choice 
axioms  which,  if  put  in  practice,  far  exceed  the 
attractiveness  of  mere  personal  beauty ;  so  says 
the  couplet  beneath  the  picture. 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.     65 
"VELIAG-E  MBIIAKE 


Beautut  III  earn  th/t'r'  pnHi^  ^"  may  nUl 
Charmt  sttiin  t/w  tmse^  iut  nurU  rt'ins  thi  ical. 

The  plate  of  the  Society  for  Propagating  the 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  is  also  pictorial,  and 
represents  a  ship  of  the  Society,  with  its  missionary, 
approaching  the  shore  of  savage  America:  this 
plate  is  dated  1 704,  and  is  very  curious  and  inter- 
esting. The  society  grew  from  the  efforts  of 
one  Rev.  Thomas  Bray,  who  established  thirty- 
nine  parochial  libraries  in  the  American  Colonies 
for  the    purpose    of    propagating    the    doctrines 


66 


American  Book-plates. 


of  the  Church.  In  1698,  King's  Chapel,  Boston, 
received  some  two  hundred  books  from  this 
society,  which  were   described    as  "  an  arsenal  of 


sound  theological,  ecclesiastical,  and  political 
doctrines  for  the  Ministers  of  His  Majesty's 
Chapel."  For  the  prevention  of  loss  or  embezzle- 
ment, and  that  they  might  be  known  wherever 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.    67 

found,  "  in  every  book,  on  the  inside  cover  shall 
be  these  words,  '  Sub  auspiciis  Wilhelmi  III,'  and 
also  the  Library  to  which  they  belong,  thus  '  E 
Bibliotheca  Bostoniana.'  "  This  must  have  been 
in  addition  to  the  plate  we  are  considering,  as  no 
words  descriptive  of  particular  ownership  are 
given  :  possibly  this  plate  was  used  in  all  the 
books  belonging  to  the  society,  and  the  supple- 
mentary one  was  for  use  in  each  individual  library. 


College  plates  are  as  a  general  thing  very  plain, 
but  the  plates  used  by  the  societies  supported  by 
the  students  and  the  alumni,  are  often  very 
elaborate.  The  early  societies  in  Harvard  and  in 
Yale  had  curious  and  very  interesting  examples 
of  the  allegorical  and  symbolic  plate. 

The  Hasty  P lidding  Society  and  the  Poj^cellian 
Cliib  of  Harvard  College,  the  Linoniau  Society 
and  the  Bi^otliers  in  Unity  of  Yale  College,  are 
examples.  In  Dartmouth  College,  the  Social 
Friends  Society,  and  in  the  smaller  colleges 
numerous  other  fraternities  and  societies,  used 
plates  of  simpler  style. 

The  books  of  the  Library  of  Harvard  College 
were  marked  with  plates  by  Hurd  and  Bowen,  as 
noted  in  the  list ;  on  these  plates,  the  gifts  of 
various  benefactors  are  recorded,  with  the  class  to 
which  they  belonged,  conditions  regarding  the 
gift  of  the  books,  or  a  statement  of  the  fund  from 
whose  income  the  money  for  the  books  is  derived. 

The  plate  of  the  Library  of  Congi^ess  is  an 
engraved  label  having  the  name  and  spaces  for 


Jl         ■— -^ — -       -^ 


68 


LlH'QI^liJi'N 


TAUS  COJLILECE 


69 


70 


Ainerican  Book-plates. 


entries  surrounded  by  a  border  of  oak  leaves  and 
acorns :  the  design  is  very  neat,  and  is  old  in 
appearance. 

A  very  beautiful  plate  is  used  by  some  Orphan 
Asylum,  which  does  not  give  its  full  name  upon 
its  plate.  In  this  a  beautiful  picture  of  the  Christ 
blessing  the  little  ones  is  given ;  the  line  "  For- 


m\  3 


asmuch  as  ye  did  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of  these, 
ye  did  it  unto  Me,"  is  given  under  the  vignette. 

In  the  plate  of  the  Libjmry  of  the  New  York 
State  Agricultural  Society,  which  was  incorpo- 
rated in  1832,  Ceres  is  seen  in  the  field;  behind 
her  the  sheaves  of  wheat  extend  in  rows ;  one 
arm  clasps  a  cornucopia,  and  with  the  hand  of  the 
other  she  extends  a  wreath. 

In  a  great  many  instances  the  plates  of  libra- 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.    71 

ries  had  no  pictorial  features,  or  indeed  anything 
at  all  ornamental,  being  but  the  printed  rules  gov- 
erning the  users  of  the  books.  Two  examples  of 
this  kind  of  plate  are  given  below. 

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Subscribers  to  fay  in  advance,  six  dollars  for  a  year: 
three  dollars  atid  fifty  cents  for  six  months :  tzuo  dollars 
for  three  months :  one  dollar  for  one  month :  each  sub- 
scriber to  have  three  Duodecimo  volumes,  or  one  Octavo 
and  one  Duodecimo  at  a  time.  A  subscriber  detaining 
an  Octavo  longer  tJian  four  iveeks  or  a  Duodecimo  longer 
than  two  weeks  to  pay  as  a  non-subscriber.  For  each 
Octavo  one  eighth  of  a  dollar  per  zveck  imtil  the  end  of 
t  lie  fourth  week  wJien  the  rate  zuas  doubled.  For  a  Duo- 
decimo one  sixteenth  of  a  dollar  per  zveek  until  the  end 
of  the  second  zveck. 

Constant  attendance  at  the  Library  from  Sunrise  till 
8  o'clock  in  the  evening. 


72 


American  Book-plates. 


In  mentioning  a  few  examples  of  the  plates 
recently  made  for  societies  and  libraries,  no 
attempt  is  made  to  furnish  a  complete  list,  nor 
even  to  mention  all  the  attractive  plates,  but  to 
speak  of  a  few  which  seem  of  especial  interest. 


A  pleasing  architectural  plate  is  used  in  Colum- 
bia College  Library  to  mark  the  books  of  the 
Avery  Architectural  Library.  This  was  designed 
by  Russell  Sturgis,  and  is  in  the  form  of  a  memo- 
rial window  or  mortuary  mural  tablet.  The 
central  panel  bears  the  inscription,  and  the  date 
MDCCCXC  is  given  below. 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.    73 

The  plate  of  the  Arnold  Arboretum,  designed 
by  George  Wharton  Edwards,  is  very  attractive ; 
the  just-rising  sun  shines  upon  a  white  pine  which 
stands  within  an  elHptical  frame ;  the  names  of 
the  Institution  and  of  the  University  appear  upon 
ribbons  which  float  from  the  pine.  The  plate  is 
dated  1892,  and  is  signed,  G.  W.  E. 

The  same  artist  designed  the  first  book-plate 
of  the  G roller  Club  of  New  York  City.  In  this, 
Atlas  is  seen  supporting  the  arms  of  the  club 
within  a  circular  frame  which  bears  the  name, 
and  the  date  of  the  founding  of  the  club,  1884; 
rich  foliations  with  a  pounced  background  sur- 
round this  central  design.  The  plate  is  signed 
G.  IV.  E. 

The  Public  Library  of  the  old  whaling  town 
of  Nezu  Loudon  has  a  plate  which  is  wholly  nau- 
tical in  construction ;  the  name  is  given  on  a 
wheel  which  is  held  by  a  seaman,  while  the  cap- 
tain stands  by  in  pea-jacket  and  rough-weather 
helmet, giving  orders;  the  sail,  which  rises  behind 
them,  affords  space  for  the  number  of  the  book; 
below  the  deck  on  which  the  mariners  stand,  are 
seen  harpoons  and  spears  of  various  sizes  and 
kinds;  two  dolphins  are  disporting  in  the  waves. 
This  plate  is  signed  by  the  name  of  the  artist  in 
full.     It  is  by  Mr.  Edwards. 

The  Stitro  Library  of  San  Francisco  uses  a 
plate  which  gives  a  large  and  interesting  picture 
of  the  natural  resources  of  the  locality,  and  the 
enterprises  carried  on  in  its  vicinity;  the  motto. 
Labor  omnia  vincit,  appears  on  the  ribbon  which 
floats  in  the  air. 


74 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.    75 

The  Watkiuson  Library  of  Hartford  uses  one 
of  the  very  few  portrait  plates  in  the  country ; 
just  why  this  style  of  plate  should  not  be  common 
is  not  easy  to  understand.  They  are  used  in 
Boston  and  Worcester,  as  mentioned  below,  but 
these  instances  are  all  that  occur  in  public  libra- 
ries. In  this  plate  the  portrait  of  David  Watkin- 
son,  the  founder  of  the  library,  is  enclosed  within 
an  oval  frame  which  bears  the  name  and  the  date 
of  incorporation,  1858.  The  plate  is  signed  by 
the  American  Bank  Note  Company,  New  York, 
arid  is  an  excellent  piece  of  steel  engraving. 

Almost  all  of  the  historical  societies  use  plates 
in  which  the  arms  of  the  state  or  city  in  which 
they  are  located,  are  used.  The  Pennsylvania, 
Connecticut,  and  Maine  Historical  Societies  have 
plates  of  this  kind.  In  the  last-named  plate  an 
inescutcheon  bears  four  important  dates  in  the 
history  of  the  state  of  Maine. 

1605,  First  voyage  along  the  Coast  by  Waynnnith. 
1649,  Election  of  Godfrey  as  Governor. 
1678,  Usurpation  of  Maine  by  MassacJiusetts. 
1820,  Separation  from  Massachusetts. 

The  Rozufant  Club  of  Cleveland  uses  a  small 
plate  representing  the  corner  of  a  library ;  the 
open  window  admits  the  fading  light  of  the  sun, 
which  is  sinking  into  the  sea ;  the  lattice  swings 
idly,  and  the  pile  of  books  on  the  table  proclaim  a 
busy  day. 

A  very  striking  plate  is  used  by  the  University 
Club  of  Washington.  A  wall  of  rough-faced  stone 
is  pierced  by  a  small  quatrefoil  window  in  which 


76 


Pictorial  and  Allegorical  Plates.    77 

a  book  is  laid;  the  date  1891  is  stamped  upon 
the  side  of  the  book.  Below  this,  Ionic  columns 
support    the   wall ;    between   them,   in   a  smooth 


space,  is  carved  the  name  and  city  of  the  club. 
The  plate  is  signed  Hy.  Sandhani. 

In  the  Boston  Public  Library  a  large  number  of 
different  plates  is  used  for  the  volumes  coming 
from  different  legacies  or  funds,  and  in  very  many 


78 


Ainerican  Book-plates. 


cases  these  plates  give  a  portrait  of  the  donor. 
Thus  we  find  these  portraits  on  the  plate  used  in 
the  books  from  the  Ticknor  Fund,  the  Phillips 
Fund,  and  the  Franklin  Club  Fund.  The  books 
remaining  from  the  library  of  Thomas  Prince  are 
also  marked  with  a  plate  which  gives  his  portrait 
and  a  picture  of  the  old  meeting-house,  in  which 
he  preached,  and  in  which  the  books  were  stored 
at  one  time. 

Portraits  also  appear  upon  the  book-plates  of 
the  American  Anfiqiiarian  Society,  which  gives 
that  of  Ginery  Twichell ;  and  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  which  has  a  plate  giving  a 
portrait  of  James  Savage. 

The  public  libraries  of  to-day  do  not  usually 
use  elaborate  plates  in  their  book-covers;  simple 
labels,  with  perhaps  a  city  or  corporation  seal,  are 
the  common  kind. 


BOOK-PLATES    OF    SPECIAL 
INTEREST. 


EVERAL  reasons  can  be  given 
for  the  fact  that  collectors  re- 
gard some  book-plates  as  of 
more  value  than  others.  With 
book-plates,  as  in  other  lines 
of  collecting,  rarity  is  a  de- 
sirable feature,  and  is  a  prom- 
inent element  in  deciding- 
values. 

All  of  our  early  American  plates  can  fairly  be 
called  scarce  when  compared  with  the  foreign 
examples  of  the  same  period,  for  they  outnumber 
ours,  fifty  to  one  ;  but  many  among  ours  are  rarer 
than  others.  The  John  Franklin,  brother  of 
Benjamin,  signed  by  Turner,  is  an  exceeding  rare 
plate;  the  Thomas  Bering,  signed  by  Hurd,  is 
very  rare.  The  plates  of  Stephen-  Cleveland, 
Samnel  Chase,  Francis  Kinloch,  Edivard  Aiigus- 
tus  Holyoke,John  Vassal,  Lewis  De  Blois,  LentJial, 
Apthorp,  the  John  Pintard,  by  Anderson,  and 
many  others  are  not  seen  in  many  collections. 
The  plate  of  George  Washington  is  the  most 
valuable  probably  of  our  plates ;  and  while  we 
know  the  location  of  a  good  many  of  his  books  that 
have  the  plate  within  the  covers,  they  are  in  no  way 

79 


8o 


American  Book-plates. 


obtainable :    this  plate  is  not  very  common,  but 
more  copies  of  it  are  owned  than  of  some  others. 
The  libraries  of  our  early  days,  while  of  respec- 
table size,  were  not  so  large  as  to  require   the 


.y.^=;'<, 


printing  of  thousands  of  book-plates ;  fire  and 
mob  violence  have  destroyed  many  books  of  those 
old  collections  and  their  plates  with  them.  Har- 
vard,  Yale,   William   and    Mary,   and    Princeton 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      8i 

have  all  suffered  the  loss  of  books  by  fire,  while 
many  smaller  private  libraries  have  been  thus 
devastated.  Mr.  John  Pintard  used  to  say  that 
he  had  seen  the  British  soldiers  carrying  away 
books  from  the   library  of  Columbia  College  to 


barter  for  orrocr  and  a  similar  fate  from  similar 
hands  overtook  many  of  the  books  stored  in  the 
belfry-chamber  of  the  Old  South  Church,  Boston, 
while  later  in  our  history,  worse  depredations 
were  committed  in  the  Southern  cities  by  soldiers, 
who  took  the  liberty  which  war  accords  to  con- 
testants, to  despoil  many  a  building,  both  public 


82  American  Book-plates. 

and  private,  ruining  books,  records,  paintings,  and 
other  property  of  antiquarian  and  historical  value. 
So  that  the  early  American  plates,  at  the  first  not 
so  very  numerous,  have  been  reduced  at  times  by 
wholesale  measures. 

A  second  item  of  interest  to  the  collector  is  the 
signature  of  the  engraver  of  the  plate.  Signed 
plates  have  a  value  over  those  which  are  not 
signed.  The  identification  of  a  plate,  or  the 
determination  of  its  age,  may  be  considerably 
strengthened  if  the  engraver's  name  appears  upon 
the  copper.  Then,  too,  the  name  of  a  famous 
engraver  lends  much  additional  interest  to  a 
plate.  A  book-plate  signed  by  Paul  Revere 
arrests  the  attention  of  any  observer  at  once,  and 
establishes  a  value  to  the  same.  Likewise  a  plate 
signed  by  Hurd,  Doolittle,  Dawkins,  Anderson, 
Maverick,  Callender,  or  Turner  is  worth  much 
more  to  the  collector  than  one  of  equal  age  but 
of  unknown  workmanship. 

Dated  plates  also  rank  among  the  more  valua- 
ble examples.  A  glance  at  the  chronological 
list  will  show  how  small  a  number  of  these  we 
can  boast:  many  of  those  appearing  in  the  list, 
too,  are  simply  printed  name-labels,  which  do  not 
rank  as  high  as  the  more  pretentious  specimens. 
Our  very  earliest  dated  example  is  the  label  of 
the  Rev.  yohn  Williams,  1679,  the  first  minister  in 
Deerfield,  Mass.,  and  who  with  his  wife  and  chih 
dren  was  carried  into  captivity  by  the  Indians  in 
1704.  Coming  next  are  the  plates  of  Francis 
Page,  1 703,  and  William  Pcnii,  1 703,  but  they  are 
both   of   English   make.     The   plate   of    Thomas 


N2. 


Q^aio/i  dZ/umoj 


83 


84 


American  Book-plates. 


Prince,  who  was  for  forty  years  the  pastor  of  the 
Old  South  Society  in  Boston,  is  a  simple  label 
dated  1 704.  The  plate  of  Thomas  Dering,  signed 
by  Hurd,  and  dated  1749,  is  the  first  American 
plate    by    an    American    engraver    that    is    both 


signed  and  dated.  The  yohii  Burnet,  by  Daw- 
kins,  dated  1754,  is  next  in  order;  then  comes  the 
Greene  plate,  by  Hurd,  1757,  the  Albany  Society 
Library,  1759,  concerning  which  very  little  is 
known,  and  every  few  years  an  example  until  we 
come  to  the  opening  of  the  century. 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      ^^ 

Naturally  the  artistic  quality  of  a  book-plate 
influences  its  value ;  the  more  elaborate  designs 
are  preferred  to  the  plain  armorials  or  the  printed 
labels.  Pictorial  plates,  introducing  bits  of  land- 
scape, interiors  of  libraries,  or  allegorical  subjects, 
are  sought  for,  as  are  plates  which  are  accepted 
as  particularly  good  types  of  the  different  styles. 
In  addition  to  these  technical  reasons  for  valuine 
one  plate  more  highly  than  another  may  be  given 
others  which  will  appear  more  reasonable  perhaps 
to  the  Qreneral  reader.  All  articles  belonoincr  to 
the  noted  men  of  the  past  have  a  certain  antiqua- 
rian value  greater  than  attaches  to  the  kindred 
belongings  of  their  contemporaries  of  lesser  or  no 
fame.     So  with  book-plates. 

A  glance  at  the  list  wdll  show  a  goodly 
number  of  names  which  we  remember  with  pride 
and  interest ;  the  names  of  patriots,  orators, 
lawyers,  statesmen,  officers  of  the  army,  officers 
of  the  state  and  nation,  members  of  Congress, 
signers  of  the  Declaration,  governors,  old-time 
merchants,  authors,  divines,  physicians,  and  not  a 
few  of  that  plucky  numl^er  who  stood  by  the 
King  in  trying  times  —  the  American  Loyalists. 
Quakers,  too,  as  well  as  royal  office-holders,  and 
titled  Americans  are  among  those  whose  book- 
plates have  come  down  to  us. 

Of  our  early  Presidents,  the  plates  of  George 
Washington,  John  Adams,  John  Quincy  Adams, 
and  John  Tyler  are  known  to  us.  All  of  these 
except  the  last,  which  is  a  plain  printed  label,  are 
armorial. 

Members   of   the    Boston    Tea    Party,  of   the 


86 


American  Book-plates. 


Constitutional  Convention,  and  of  the  early- 
Assemblies  are  among  those  whose  plates  we 
know. 

Of  royal  officers  we  have:  Craven,  one  of  the 
Lords  Proprietors  of  South  Carolina;  Elliston, 
Collector  of  His  Majesty's  Customs  at  New  York; 


Sir  William  Keith,  Governor  of  Pennsylvania ; 
John  Tabor  Kempe,  Attorney-General  under  the 
Crown  at  New  York ;  and  William  Penn,  Pro- 
prietor and  Governor  of  the  colony  which  bore 
his  name. 

Owners  of  large  estates,  employers  of  numbers 
of  slaves,  merchants  whose  vessels  carried  on  a 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      87 

trade  with  remote  and  prosperous  shores,  and  who 
estabHshed  names  that  have  endured,  used  book- 
plates which  are  still  known  to  us.  Among  these 
are  the  plates  from  the  following  families,  well- 
known  in  New  England  :  Ames,  Bowdoin,  Cabot, 
Chandler,    Chauncey,     Coffin,     Lodge,    Lowell, 


J^  C^Ci/k^  oy^^c^^-^^^y 


Minot,  Ouincy,  Sears,  Winthrop,  Barrell,  Greene, 
Perkins,  Swan,  Vassall,  and  Vaughan. 

Of  those  well-known  in  and  about  New  York 
may  be  mentioned,  Clinton,  Colden,  Constable, 
Cutting,  De  Peyster,  Duer,  Ellery,  Goelet,  Hoff- 
man, Ogden,  Paulding,  Phillipse,  Pintard,  Van 
Cortlandt,  and  Van  Rensselaer.  To  these  should 
be  added  the  Livingstons,  which  family  had  the 
largest  number  of  book-plates  of  any  we  know. 


S8 


American  Book-plates. 


In  Philadelphia  were  the  Logans,  Morgans, 
Powels,  Banckers,  and  Hamiltons;  while  further 
South,  the  Lees,  Lightfoots,  Tayloes,  Wormeleys, 
Pages,  Cabels,  Tubervilles,  Armisteads,  Byrds, 
Blands,  Boilings,  Dinwiddies,  Fitzhughs,  Hubards, 


Ma2;ills,   and    Randolphs    used   plates  and  were 
families  of  prominence  and  distinction. 

Among  the  prominent  Loyalists  are  Chalmers, 
Cooper,  Halloweli,  Hamilton,  Livius,  Lloyd, 
Oliver,  and  Robinson.  Of  titled  Americans  the 
following  used  book-plates:  Fairfax,  Gardiner, 
Min-ray  of  Dunmore,  and  the  Pepperrell  families. 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      89 

Of  the  early  authors  we  can  mention  Alsop, 
Antill,  Bozman,  Byrd,  Dana,  Key,  Stith,  and 
Abercrombie ;  of  physicians,  Assheton,  Bond, 
Beatty,  Holyoke,  Middleton,  and  Jeffries;  of  the 
statesmen.  Bayard,  Carmichael,  Dana,  Duane,  Gal- 


latin, Jay,  Lewis,  Marshall,  Norris,  and  Randolph. 

Among  the  early  clergymen  can  be  named 
Apthorp,  Boucher,  Williams,  Jarvis,  and  Provoost. 

Allen  and  Thomas,  early  printers  ;  Aitkin,  who 
made  the  first  American  edition  of  the  Holy 
Bible ;  and  Bartram,  the  great  botanist,  used 
plates,  which  are  described  in  the  list. 


90  American  Book-plates. 

Bloomfield,  Brearly,  Banister,  Chester.  Eustace, 
Hale,  Mercer,  Schuyler,  Sullivan,  and  Varick  are 
among  the  soldiers  of  the  Revolutionary  army ; 
and  of  the  orators  we  have  Otis  and  Randolph. 

Coming  now  to  the  signers  of  the  Declaration, 
we  find  that  we  know  thus  far  the  plates  of  eleven 
of  them  :  John  Adams,  Charles  Carroll,  Samuel 
Chase,  Thomas  Hayward,  William  Hooper, 
Francis  Hopkinson,  Benjamin  Rush,  Richard 
Stockton,  George  Taylor,  Oliver  Wolcott,  and 
George  Wythe. 

Surely  the  book-plates  of  all  these  men  whose 
mention  stirs  patriotic  feeling,  are  of  exceeding 
interest,  and  worthy  to  rank  with  any  in  point  of 
value  and  appreciation. 

No  book-plate,  however,  is  of  greater  interest 
to  the  American  collector  than  that  of  George 
Washington,  not  alone  by  reason  of  the  promi- 
nence of  that  eminent  man,  but  because  of  the 
scarcity  of  the  plate,  the  high  price  it  brings,  and 
the  interesting  fact  that  it  is  the  only  American 
plate  which  has  been  deemed  worthy  of  counter- 
feiting. 

A  genuine  contemporary  print  of  this  plate  is 
readily  recognized  by  the  connoisseur.  The  plate 
has  no  striking  features,  but  is  a  regular  design 
in  the  pure  Chippendale  style.  The  arms  are 
displayed  upon  a  shield  of  the  usual  shell-like 
form,  and  the  sprays  and  rose  branches  of  this 
style  are  used  in  the  ornamentation  of  the  sides 
of  the  escutcheon.  The  motto,  Exitiis  acta 
probat,  is  given  upon  its  ribbon  at  the  base  of 
the  shield,  and  the  name  is  engraved  in  script  on 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      91 

the  bracket  at  the  bottom  of  the  design.  In 
general  appearance  the  plate  is  like  scores  of 
Chippendale  plates  of  the  period. 

The  interesting  question  of  the    probable  en- 
graver  of   the   plate   has  arisen,  and   in  a  most 


readable  article  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  R.  C.  Lich- 
tenstein,  in  the  "  Curio,"  on  the  Library  of 
Washington,  the  following  opinion  is  advanced : 
"  It  was  his  [Washington's]  habit  as  a  general  rule 
to  write  his  name  on  the  right-hand  corner  of  the 
title-page  and  place  inside  his  book-plate.  It  has 
been  a  matter  of  uncertainty  as  to  whether  that 


92  American  Book-plates. 

book-plate  was  engraved  In  England  or  in  this 
country.  Washington,  like  other  Virginia  gentle- 
men before  the  Revolution,  was  in  the  habit  of 
ordering  goods  every  year  from  London ;  but  we 
have  searched  the  various  orders  to  his  agents  in 
London,  and  examined  as  far  as  practicable  the 
items  of  his  household  expenses,  without  finding 
any  such  item.  The  strongest  argument  that  can 
be  said  in  its  favor  proving  it  to  be  American 
work  is  the  poor  heraldry  displayed  in  its  coat-of- 
arms,  general  make-up,  and  drawing.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  the  engraver  has  placed  a  wreath 
under  the  crown  (an  absolute  heresy),  and  this, 
with  the  faulty  drawing  of  the  raven,  makes  the 
whole  plate  a  very  slovenly  piece  of  work.  No 
engraver  with  any  knowledge  of  the  fundamental 
laws  of  heraldry  would  be  guilty  of  drawing  such 
a  coat-of-arms  as  this.  The  arms  of  Washington 
engraved  on  his  seal  and  ring,  undoubtedly  cut  in 
England,  are  correctly  done.  It  seems  more  than 
probable,  if  the  plate  had  been  done  in  England 
that  the  engraver  would  not  have  been  guilty  of 
making  such  blunders.  We  have  seen  a  great 
many  English  plates,  but  have  never  noticed  one 
bearing  these  peculiarities.  From  its  general  ap- 
pearance we  should  say  that  the  plate  was  made 
in  America  somewhere  between  the  years  1777 
and  1 781." 

Collectors  are  divided  in  their  opinions  upon 
this  question,  and  although  not  ready  to  hazard  a 
guess  at  the  engraver,  the  present  writer  believes 
the  plate  was  engraved  in  England,  and  would 
place  the  date  nearly  a  decade  earlier.     As  the 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      93 

friend  of  the  Fairfax  family,  Washington  might 
have  had  the  plate  made  upon  the  occasion  of 
their  ordering  work  of  the  same  kind  from  Eng- 
land, or,  indeed,  it  might  have  been  a  gift  to 
him  from  them,  or  from  some  admiring  friend. 
As  he  was  a  methodical  man,  the  fact  that  no 
entry  of  an  expense  for  such  an  article  is  found 
in  his  records  may  lend  color  to  the  presenta- 
tion theory.  As  to  the  errors  in  heraldry,  there 
is  a  plate  of  one  Richard  Washington,  which  has 
all  the  peculiarities  of  this  plate,  and  this  is  signed 
by  Bickham,  who  was  an  English  engraver  of 
some  note.  He  was  a  trifle  early  perhaps  to  have 
been  the  eno-raver  of  the  Gcoj^o^e  Washincrtoii 
plate,  but  he  may  have  made  the  plate  which 
served  as  a  copy  for  it.  But  whether  the  plate 
was  of  domestic  or  foreign  make,  we  know  that 
the  copper  was  in  this  country,  and  that  impres- 
sions were  made  from  it  not  so  very  many  years 
ago.  The  late  Mr.  Mauran  of  Newport  knew 
the  man  who  owned  this,  and  it  seems  that  hav- 
ing printed  what  he  deemed  a  sufficient  number 
of  re-strikes  from  it,  this  man,  fearing  lest  others 
would  in  time  get  it  and  make  more  prints,  cut 
the  copper  into  pieces  and  going  out  on  a  bridge 
over  the  Schuylkill  River,  threw  them  in !  There 
they  may  be  looked  for  by  any  who  choose. 

The  counterfeit  of  this  plate  appeared  in  an 
auction  sale  of  books,  in  the  city  of  Washington, 
about  the  year  1863.  The  late  Dr.  W.  F.  Poole 
with  Dr.  J.  M.  Toner  was  present  at  the  sale. 
The  plate  was  placed  in  these  books  for  the  pur- 
pose of  getting  a  higher  price  for  them  than  could 


94 


Americmt  Book-plates. 


otherwise  have  been  obtained.  These  orentlemen 
detected  the  fraudulent  plate,  and  denounced  it  as 
such  in  the  auction-room,  and  the  books  brought 
only  their  actual  value  as  books.  Copies  of  this 
plate  turn  up  now  and  then,  and  the  unsuspect- 


i^xP'^^^ 


ing  are  still  deceived  by  it.  It  is  readily  detected 
if  one  is  forewarned.  The  work  is  manifestly 
inferior  to  the  good  plate,  the  alignment  of  the 
name  is  poor,  the  quality  and  appearance  of  the 
paper  belie  its  professed  age,  and  the  printing  is 
of  decidedly  different  appearance,  being  bold  and 
strong  in  the  genuine,  and  weak  and  thin  in  the 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      95 

forgery.  A  further  difference  is  noted  in  the 
crest,  which  is  tinctured  giilcs  in  the  forgery  and 
sable  in  the  genuine.  These  plates  are  sometimes 
claimed  to  be  genuine  and  to  be  an  early  and 
unsatisfactory  piece  of  work,  which  Washington 
rejected,  and  which  was  replaced  with  the  other 
and  accepted  plate.  This  idea  is  plausible  per- 
haps to  some,  but  to  any  who  had  information 
from  Dr.  Poole  it  is  an  impossible  theory.  An- 
other source  of  confusion  is  in  the  reproductions 
of  the  plate  w^hich  have  been  made  from  time  to 
time  to  illustrate  works  on  the  life  of  Washington, 
some  of  these  being  quite  faithful  duplicates  of 
the  genuine  plate  with  its  trifling  flaws ;  but  the 
paper  and  the  printing  are  usually  conclusive 
proof  of  the  age  of  the  print.  It  is  safe  to  say 
that  there  is  but  one  genuine  Washington  plate. 
It  is  true  that  the  re-strikes  of  the  original  copper 
are  about,  but  these,  too,  are  readily  distinguish- 
able by  the  printing  and  paper. 

The  plate  of  Bushrod  Washington,  nephew  of 
George,  is  also  of  much  interest,  and  the  manifest 
similarity  of  its  design  to  some  of  the  plates  by 
Dawkins  has  led  to  the  suggestion  that  he  made 
this  plate.  But  to  the  mind  of  the  writer,  Daw- 
kins  was  not  a  man  of  originality,  and  was  a 
regular  copyist  when  it  came  to  book-plates ;  the 
similarity  of  the  plate  of  James  Sanuiels  to  this 
plate  is  rather  to  his  mind  a  further  evidence  of 
the  clever  adoption  of  a  reasonably  good  design 
by  Dawkins,  than  of  his  having  been  chosen  by 
Judge  Washington  to  engrave  his  book-plate. 
The  design  of  this  plate  is  more  spirited  than  any 


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of  the  authenticated  work  of  Dawklns;  indeed,  it 
surpasses  the  plate  of  the  General  in  that  respect. 
The  arms  are  the  same  in  these  two  Washing- 
ton plates.    In  his  "  Barons  of  the  Potomac  and  the 


^u/^u>^^^, 


Rappahannock  "  (published  by  the  Grolier  Club, 
1892),  Mr.  Moncure  Daniel  Conway  has  referred 
to  the  older  form  of  the  arms  as  used  by  earlier 
members  of  the  family.  The  earliest  shields  held 
"  GilIcs  on  a  banr  a  rodent  3  Cinqiicfoilcs  of yc  firsts 
The  second  step  was  made  by  changing  to  the 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      97 

following,  "  Gules  on  a  f esse  sable  3  mtilletsy  The 
last  and  present  form  is,  ''Argent,  huo  bars  gules: 
in  chief  three  mullets  of  the  second^  These  last, 
it  is  claimed,  su2:2:ested  our  national  flao:. 

The  plate  of  Elizabeth  Graeme  of  Philadelphia 
should  be  noted  here,  as  it  is  the  only  example  of 


an  heraldic  plate  used  by  a  lady  of  colonial 
times.     It  is  fully  described  in  the  list. 

Leaving  now  these  older  plates  of  special  inter- 
est to  be  discovered  in  the  Lists,  we  turn  to  a 
few  modern  plates  which  are  worthy  of  particular 
attention. 

The  plate  of  Daniel  Webster  is  a  plain  armorial 


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with  the  motto,  Vera  p7'o  gratis,  on  the  ribbon 
below  the  shield. 

The  etched  plate  of  the  \?itQ  James  Eddy  Mate- 
ran,  the  early  collector  of  American  and  other 
book-plates,  was  an  armorial  of  very  handsome 
appearance.  The  shield  is  surrounded  with  the 
style  of  decoration  used  on  the  Chippendale  exam- 
ples, oak  leaves  being  used  in  lieu  of  mantling. 

An  earlier  plate  in  two  sizes  shows  some  differ- 
ences in  the  design. 

The  plate  of  the  late  George  W.  Cliilds  seems 
wholly  in  keeping  with  the  career  of  its  distin- 
guished owner.  The  sword,  broken  into  pieces 
by  the  quill,  is  depicted  within  an  oval  garter 
which  bears  the  motto,  NiJiil  sine  labore.  The 
words  from  Lytton's  Richelieu,  TJiepen  is  migJitier 
tJian  tJie  sword,  are  also  given  just  within  the 
frame. 

Coming  now  to  mention  a  few  plates  of  our 
well-known  men  of  letters,  we  naturally  accept  the 
plate  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  as  worthy  of  the 
chiefest  place.  In  this  the  motto,  Per  ampliora 
ad  altiora,  is  given  on  a  ribbon  beneath  a  beautiful 
representation  of  the  "  Chambered  Nautilus,"  the 

Ship  of  pearl,  which,  poets  feign, 

Sails  the  unshadowed  main,  — 

The  venturous  bark  that  flings 
On  the  sweet  summer  wind  its  purple  wings 
In  gulfs  enchanted,  where  the  Siren  sings, 

And  coral  reefs  lie  bare. 

Where  the  cold  sea-maids  rise  to  sun  their  streaming  hair. 

"  If  you  will  look  into  Roget's  '  Bridgewater 
Treatise,' "  said  the  Autocrat  one  morning,  "  you 


Book-plates  of  Special  Interest.      99 

will  find  a  figure  of  one  of  these  shells  and  a  sec- 
tion of  it.  The  last  will  show  you  the  series  of 
enlarging  compartments  successively  dwelt  in  by 
the  animal  that  inhabits  the  shell,  which  is  built 
in  a  widening  spiral.  Can  you  find  no  lesson 
in  this .? 

"  '  Build  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul, 

As  the  swift  seasons  roll  ! 

Leave  thy  low- vaulted  past  ! 
Let  each  new  temple  nobler  tlian  the  last, 
Shut  thee  from  heaven  with  a  dome  more  vast, 

Till  thou  at  length  art  free, 

Leaving  thine  outgrown  shell  by  life's  unresting  sea.' " 


A  plain  armorial  plate  with  the  motto,  Vitam 
impeiidere  vcro,  and  the  name  in  fac-simile  of  his 
autograph,  was  used  by/.  G.  Holland. 

The  plate  of  Braudcr  Matthczvs,  designed  by 
Edwin  A.  Abbey,  represents  the  discovery  of  a 
mask  of  the  old  Greek  comedy,  by  an  American 


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Indian.  With  feathers  stuck  in  his  scanty  hair, 
and  his  tomahawk  laid  on  the  ground  beside  him, 
he  appears  to  dehberate  upon  the  possible  use  of 
the  enormous  face  which  grins  at  him  from  his 
knee.  On  a  circular  frame  surrounding  this  picture 
the  following  words  from  Moliere  are  given,  Que 
pe7iscz  vous  dc  cctte  co'mcdic.  The  appropriateness 
of  the  design  is  apparent  for  one  who  is  a  col- 
lector of  the  literature  of  the  French  drama,  and 


the  author  of  several  books  relating  to  the  stage 
both  in  America  and  France. 

In  the  plate  of  Edmund  Clarence  Stednian,  the 
author  of  "  The  Poets  of  America,"  we  see  Pan 
piping  in  the  sylvan  glades ;  the  shepherd  and 
the  nymph  are  charmed  by  the  music,  and  the  god 
is  apparently  at  the  height  of  his  effort.  The 
frame  surrounding  the  design  bears  the  words, 
Le  Cceur  au  Metier,  which  were  suggested  by 
the  address  of  Matthew  Arnold  to  the  Authors' 
Club  in  1 88 3.     This  plate  is  made  in  three  sises. 


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The  plate  of  TJiomas  Bailey  Aldj^ich  presents 
within  a  square  frame  a  picture  of  a  black  bird 
resting  upon  a  comic  mask;  the  heavy  panelled 
frame  bears  the  owner's  name  and  the  words,  His 
Mark.  In  his  essay  on  American  Book-plates, 
Mr.  Laurence  Hutton  questions  whether  this 
black  bird  is  representative  of  the  Daw,  and  sym- 
bolic of  Margery  of  that  name. 

In  the  plate  of  Eugene  Field  we  have  a  beauti- 
ful example  of  the  plain  armorial,  unaccompanied 
by  motto  or  ornamentation  of  any  kind. 

Of  similar  character  is  the  plate  of  Richard 
Grant  White.  This  is  armorial,  but  the  motto. 
The  right  and  sleep.,  is  given,  and  the  shield  is 
decorated  in  a  conventional  manner,  with  mantling 
and  scrolls. 

A  pleasing  library  interior  is  used  by  Arlo 
Bates.  This  represents  an  Oriental  interior;  a 
youth  in  scull-cap  and  flowing  hair  is  reading  a 
large  book  ;  a  lily  stem  rises  from,  a  vase  of  striped 
Tyrian  glass  at  his  side  ;  rows  of  books  are  seen 
at  his  back ;  and  out  of  the  arched  window  the 
distant  fields  are  seen,  with  the  palm  and  cypress 
trees  on  the  hillside.  This  plate  is  produced  in 
a  new  manner,  being  a  gelatine  print  or  half-tone 
direct  from  the  pencil  sketch.  It  preserves  a  very 
soft  and  pleasant  effect ;  indeed,  one  feels  sure  it 
will  smirch  if  rubbed. 

Laurence  Hiittou  in  his  plate  places  a  full- 
length  statue  of  Thackeray  within  a  canopy, 
which  seems  to  be  a  niche  within  a  bookcase. 
Volumes  flank  both  sides,  and  the  amiable  face 
of  the  drastic  writer  looks  directly  at  the  beholder. 


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The  name  of  the  owner  is  given  on  a  ribbon  at 
the  bottom  of  the  design. 

The  books  of  the  lamented  actors,  Ediuin  Booth 
and  Lawrence  Barrett^  were  marked  with  book- 
pLites,  the  former  using  a  plain  armorial  with  no 
name  engraved  upon  it,  and  the  latter  showing 
the  mask  of  Tragedy  upon  an  open  volume,  with 
the  motto,  Esto  quod  esse  vidcris. 

The  reading  monk,  with  the  nimbus  and  star 
over  his  head,  is  seen  in  the  plate  of  Edward 
Egglestou.  The  sentiment.  Flic  fro  the  prcsse  and 
dwell  with  sothfastncsse,  is  given  in  old  English 
letters. 


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Mr.  Rossitcr  Johnson  uses  a  very  plain  but 
effective  label  bearing  the  initials  R.  J-  printed 
within  a  plain  ruled  border :  all  in  red  ink. 

The  patriotic  motto  of  Gcncj^al  Winficld  Scott 
is  the  family  motto  of  the  Scots  of  Whitislaid, 
Scotland,  and  well  did  the  character  of  the  man 
who  used  the  book-plate  depicted  below  coincide 
with  its  meaning. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  extend  this  list  of 
plates  used  by  men  well  known  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  our  land,  but,  unfortu- 
nately, many  whose  names  will  occur  to  the 
reader  do  not  use  a  book-plate. 


EARLY   AMERICAN    BOOK-PLATE 
ENGRAVERS. 


ATHANIEL     HURD,    who 

was  born  in  Boston,  Feb.  13, 
1730,  and  who  died  in  1777, 
was  the  best  of  our  early  en- 
gravers of  book-plates.  Very 
little  is  now  known  of  him,  the 
principal  source  of  informa- 
tion being  an  article  in  the 
third  volume  of  "  The  New 
England  Magazine,"  published  in  Boston  in  1832 
by  J.  T.  and  E.  Buckingham.  The  only  known 
portrait  of  Hurd,  which  is  copied  from  an  origi- 
nal painting  of  him  by  Copley,  and  which  in  1832 
was  owned  by  a  descendant  of  Hurd  in  Medford, 
Mass.,  also  accompanies  this  article,  and  shows 
him  as  a  young  man  with  smooth  face,  ver}^  pleas- 
ing and  intelligent  features,  and  wearing  a  cap, 
white  neck-cloth,  and  clothes  of  a  pattern  which 
give  him  a  decidedly  clerical  appearance. 

The  only  book-plate  work  mentioned  in  this 
article  is  the  large  plate  for  Harvard  College.  It 
is  said  that  the  prints  done  in  red  ink  were  for 
use  in  the  highly  valuable  books  which  the  stu- 
dents were  not  allowed  to  take  from  the  library. 
Several  brilliant  caricatures,  a  portrait  of  the  Rev. 

104 


Early  American  Engravers.       105 

Dr.  Sewell  of  the  Old  South  Church,  done  in 
1764,  and  a  few  other  examples  of  his  art  are 
mentioned.  He  is  (probably  inaccurately)  claimed 
to  be  the  first  person  who  undertook  to  engrave 
on  copper  in  the  United  States.  He  was  a  man  of 
natural  talent  and  real  genius,  was  self-instructed 
in  his  art,  and  was  regarded  as  the  foremost  seal- 
cutter  and  die-engraver  of  his  time,  in  this  country. 
The  following  advertisement  from  the  Boston 
"Gazette"  of  April  28,  1760,  is  of  some  inter- 
est: — 

"  Nathaniel  Hurd  Informs  his  Customers  he  has  remov'd 
his  shop  from  Maccarty's  Corner  on  the  Exchange  to  the  Back 
Part  of  the  opposite  Brick  Building,  where  Mr.  Ezekiel  Price 
kept  his  Office,  where  he  continues  to  do  all  Sorts  of  Gold- 
smiths Work.  Likewise  engraves  in  Gold,  Silver,  Copper,  Brass, 
and  Steel,  in  the  neatest  Manner,  and  at  reasonable  Rate." 

Hurd  worked  principally  in  the  Chippendale 
style ;  he  made  some  plates  in  the  Jacobean  and 
a  few  in  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath  styles,  but  he 
died  before  the  latter  was  much  in  use,  and  the 
former  was  really  going  out  when  he  took  up  the 
making  of  plates.  Judging  from  the  appearance 
of  his  work,  his  first  attempts  were  in  the  Chip- 
pendale style,  and  the  few  Jacobeans  he  made  were 
done  after  he  had  attained  considerable  efficiency. 

One  of  his  earliest  specimens  was  undoubtedly 
the  plate  of  Edward  Aiignstns  Holyoke,  the 
famous  doctor  of  Boston,  who  lived  to  be  one 
hundred  years  old,  and  who  was  but  a  year  or 
two  the  senior  of  Hurd.  In  this  plate  he  used  a 
design  which  he  evidently  believed  he  could  im- 
prove upon,  and  in  which  he  felt  there  were  good 


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features,  for  we  find  a  number  of  future  plates  of 
very  similar  design  but  much  better  execution. 
In  the  Holyoke  plate  the  work  is  very  crude,  the 
lines  are  stiff,  the  drawing  is  poor,  and  the  letter- 
ins:  of  the  motto  and  name  are  not  orood.  An 
ugly  scroll  is  placed  under  the  name,  and  the  fes- 
toon of  cloth  which  is  draped  at  the  bottom  of  the 
frame  and  around  the  motto  ribbon  is  especially 
poor ;  the  shell  at  the  base  of  the  escutcheon 
which  figures  so  often  in  future  plates  is  here 
used,  and  the  queer  little  flow  of  water  from  it 
would  not  be  recognized  as  such  were  this  the 
only  specimen  in  which  it  occurs ;  the  arrange- 
ment of  the  rose  sprays,  the  form  of  the  shield, 
and  the  employment  of  the  shelly  edge  show  a 
thorough  study  of  the  elements  of  this  style. 
Very  likely  this  design  was  copied  in  great  part 
from  some  foreign  example  which  had  come  into 
his  possession. 

In  the  Thomas  Dcn'jig  plate,  which  is  the  ear- 
liest plate  dated  and  signed  by  an  American  en- 
graver, this  same  design  is  improved  upon ;  it  is 
more  compact  in  appearance,  a  little  freer  in  exe- 
cution, and  the  drawing  is  improved.  The  name 
is  still  not  very  well  engraved,  and  top-heavy 
flourishes  weigh  down  the  capitals. 

In  the  Theodore  Atkinson  plate  the  same  de- 
sign is  still  further  improved  upon ;  the  flow  of 
water  from  the  scallop  shell  is  here  caught  in  a 
little  bowl,  a  little  additional  flowery  ornamenta- 
tion is  added,  and  the  heraldic  drawing  is  better. 
The  name  is  again  embellished  with  graceless 
flourishes. 


Early  American  Engravers.       107 


The  design  seems  to  reach  perfection  in  the 
Wcnhuorth  plate  ;  every  feature  is  markedly  bet- 
ter, the  water  still  flows  out  of  the  scallop  shell, 
the  same  shaped  shield  is  used  and  the  motto  is 
placed  upon  a  graceful  ribbon  with  ends  which 


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run  off  into  fancy  foliations.  The  name  is  neat 
in  appearance,  but  still  there  are  too  many  scrolls. 
In  the  plate  of  Robert  Hale  of  Beverly,  the  old 
festoon  of  cloth  noticed  in  the  Holyoke  plate  is 
seen  again,  and  no  motto  is  given.  The  name  is 
fairly  well  engraved. 


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Later  developments  of  this  style  are  seen  in  the 
plates  of  Henry  MarcJiant,  Danforth,  Nathaniel 
Tracy,  2Ln6.  John  Marstoji;  in  these  some  of  the 


features  of  the  former  are  wanting,  but  they  are  evi- 
dently a  legitimate  progeny  in  the  matter  of  style. 
Another,  and  without  doubt  the  highest  type 
of  the  Chippendale  plate  which  Hurd  made,  is 
seen   in   the  John  Chandler,  Jr.,  the  Dana,  the 


Early  American  Engravers.      109 

Philip  DiDiicj'-csque,  the  Vassall,  and  the  Wilson 
plates.  In  these  the  shield  becomes  larger,  the 
whole  scheme  of  decoration  shows  more  fine  de- 
tail work,  and  the  effect  is  lighter,  more  graceful, 
and  seems  at  once  the  work  of  a  master.     The 


names  are  engraved  in  large  bold  type,  with   a 
characteristic  dash  after  the  last  period. 

In  the  Jacobean  style,  the  earliest  of  Kurd's 
work  is  undoubtedly  the  Lciuis  Dc  Blois.  This  is 
crude  in  workmanship,  not  very  good  in  drawing, 
but  excellent  in  design,  and  faithful  to  the  char- 


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acteristics  of  the  style;  the  shield  is  placed  against 
a  frame  which  is  lined  with  the  regulation  fish- 
scale  pattern ;  the    sides  are    richly  foliated,  the 


J^A^^^  J^.^^?ie^r^ 


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mantling  is  profuse  and  very  well  drawn,  and  the 
name  is  placed  upon  a  fringed  curtain  which  is 
tied  up  at  the  ends  with  ribbon. 

The  handsomest  Jacobean  plates  by  Hurd  are 
the  Robert  Jenkins,  the  Spoonci^,  and  the  Andrew 


Early  American  Engravers.      1 1 1 

Tyler.  In  the  former  the  lining  is  diapered,  the 
scroll  work  at  the  side  of  the  arms  is  very  fine, 
and  at  the  bottom,  under  the  shield,  a  small  vig- 
nette of  a  ship  under  full  sail  is  very  pretty.  At 
the  top  of  the  scrolls  on  either  side  two  turbanded 
female  heads  peer  at  each  other  across  the  crest. 

In  the  Tyler  plate  the  frame  is  very  similar  to 
the  Jenkins,  the  lining  is  diapered,  and  the  scroll 
at  the  side  are  the  same.  The  little  vignette  at 
the  bottom,  however,  is  displaced  by  a  sour  face 
with  gray  hair.  The  two  faces  are  replaced  by 
urns  filled  with  flowers,  and  the  old  cloth  festoon 
is  draped  below  the  whole  design.  The  Spooner 
plate  bears  no  resemblance  to  the  others,  and  is 
a  more  graceful  design.  The  lining  is  latticed, 
the  Sphinx  head  under  the  shield  is  enclosed 
within  a  frame  of  its  own,  and  at  either  side  are 
term  figures  from  whose  hands  depend  bouquets 
of  flowers ;  the  crest  is  overarched  with  a  bit  of 
the  old  scallop  shell,  and  the  motto  is  on  a  ribbon, 
which,  wholly  unsupported,  maintains  a  curved 
position  under  the  frame. 

The  Jacobean  plates  of  Benjamin  Greene  and 
Peter  R.  Livingsto7i  are  almost  identical  in 
design ;  the  small  frame  which  encloses  the 
shield  is  lined  with  the  fish-scale  pattern,  the 
mantling  is  handsome  and  profuse,  and  the  motto 
ribbon  is  stretched  in  rather  stiff  manner  below 
the  frame. 

Only  two  examples  of  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath 
style  are  known  as  Hurd's  work,  the  John  C.  Wil- 
liams and  'Ol^q  Jojiathan  Jackson.  These  are  both 
signed,  and  are  very  similar  in  design.     Garlands 


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of  roses  depending  from  rings  above  follow  closely 
the  outline  of  the  heart-shaped  shield,  and  the 
ribbon  for  the  motto  is  placed  beneath,  and  is 
ornamented  with  fancy  ends. 

In  the  "  detur  "  plate  for  Harvard  College  Hurd 
conformed  to  the  English  manner  and  adopted 


^i^t^Jr^^A^.. 


the  seal-shaped  design.  The  arms  are  displayed 
upon  a  heart-shaped  shield  which  is  enclosed 
within  a  circle  which  bears  the  name  and  motto, 
and  this  again  is  enclosed  by  a  wreath  of  holly 
branches. 

Hurds  work  is  the  most  interesting  found  in 
our  early  days,  and  a  study  of  it  shows  him  to 


Early  American  Engravers.      113 

have  been  progressive  as  well  as  painstaking. 
The  Ribbon  and  Wreath  style  did  not  come  into 
general  use  in  England  until  about  1770,  yet 
Hurd,  who  died  in  1777,  had  used  it.  The  col- 
onies could  not  be  expected  to  adopt  the  new 
styles  of  the  old  country  immediately,  and  the 
condition  of  things  from  1770  on  to  the  time  of 
Hurd's  death  was  not  such  as  to  encourage  the 
introduction  of  "  fads  "  or  to  allow  much  time  for 
the  development  of  the  fine  arts. 

A  word  must  be  said  about  the  heraldry  on 
Hurd's  book-plates.  This  science,  heraldry,  was 
not  held  in  such  oeneral  esteem  amons:  the  New 
Englanders  as  it  was  further  south,  and  while 
many  of  the  governors  and  men  of  high  standing 
in  the  Northern  colonies  brought  armorial  seals 
with  them,  a  great  many  who  used  them  did  so 
without  strict  heraldic  authority,  and  when  it 
became  the  fashion  to  use  coats-of-arms  in  various 
ways,  the  herald  painters  of  those  days,  who  had 
but  slight  knowledge  of  heraldry  and  who  were 
possessed  of  a  copy  of  Guillim  or  some  other 
writer  on  the  subject,  would  find  therein  the  arms 
of  some  family  bearing  the  name  of  their  prospec- 
tive customer,  and  without  further  research  would 
proceed  to  produce  the  coat  as  described.  Not 
always  were  these  arms  so  ordered  correctly 
borne ;  indeed,  there  is  much  uncertainty  about 
the  arms  used  after  about  1730  when  our  native 
engravers  and  painters  took  up  the  work  of  pro- 
ducing arms  upon  orders.  Such  seals  as  were 
brought  by  the  colonists  from  England,  and  such 
as  were  used  by  their  descendants  are  undoubtedly 


114 


American  Book-plates. 


correct,  but  the  questionable  arms  are  those  which, 
as  mentioned  above,  were  looked  up  in  this  coun- 
try only,  by  means  of  such  heraldic  works  as 
were  at  hand.      The  presence  of  the  arms  then 


}^^ 


on  some  book-plates  cannot  be  relied  upon  as 
sufficient  and  indisputable  proof  of  their  owners' 
right  to  them. 

A  list  of  the  book-plates  signed   by   Hurd  is 
appended. 


Early  American  Engravers.      115 


.A(^ 


A   LIST   OF   BOOK-PLATES    SIGNED   BY   NATHANIEL 
KURD. 

Theodore  Atkinson Chippendale. 

Thomas  Brown •  •  • 

John  Chandler,  Jr Chippendale. 

Rufus  Chandler •  •  • 

Francis  Dana Chippendale. 

Danforth Chippendale. 

Lewis  De  Blois Jacobean. 


ii6  American  Book-plates. 

Thomas  Bering Chippendale. 

Philip  Dumeresque Chippendale. 

Isaac  Foster Jacobean. 

Benjamin  Greene Jacobean. 

Thomas  Greene,  Jr Jacobean. 

William  Greenleaf ... 

Robert  Hale,  Esq.,  of  Beverly  ....  Chippendale. 

Harvard  College Seal. 

Harvard  College Pictorial. 

William  Hooper Chippendale. 

Jonathan  Jackson Ribbon  and  ^^'reath. 

Robert  Jenkins Jacobean. 

Peter  R.  Livingston Jacobean. 

John  Lowell Chippendale. 

Henry  Marchant Chippendale. 

John  Marston Chippendale. 

Samuel  Osborne Chippendale. 

Henry  Pace ... 

Joshua  Spooner Jacobean. 

Nathaniel  Tracy Chippendale. 

Andrew  Tyler Jacobean. 

Wentworth Chippendale. 

John  C.  Williams Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

A    LIST    OF    PLATES   ATTRIBUTED  TO    KURD, 
ALTHOUGH    NOT    SIGNED. 

Thomas  Child Chippendale. 

Henry  Courtenay Chippendale. 

Edwd.  Augs.  Holyoke  ....  Chippendale. 

By  the  name  of  Hurd    ....  Plain  Armorial. 

Loring Chippendale. 

Lucretia  E.  Newton      ....  Ribbon  and  Wreath, 

(Same  copper  as  the  John  C.  Williams.) 

Andrew  Oliver Chippendale. 

Samuel  Page Label :  Chippendale  frame. 

Phillips  Academy Chippendale. 

Ezekiel  Price Chippendale. 

John  Simpson Chippendale. 

JohnVassall    . Chippendale. 

David  Wilson  .......  Chippendale.  |  ^ 

James  Wilson Chippendale,  j  IP- 


Early  American  Engravers.      1 1 7 

Of  James  Akin,  who  signs  the  Coffin  and 
Broivne  plates,  nothing  is  learned.  The  Hector 
Coffin  book-plate  is  also  signed  by  Francis 
Kearney,  which  would  seem  to  indicate  that 
Akin  was  associated  with  him.  The  Browne  is 
a  Philadelphia  plate,  and  Akin  may  have  been 
employed  by  the  firm  of  Tanner,  Vallance, 
Kearney  and  Company,  which  was  in  successful 
operation  in  Philadelphia  for  some  years. 


S.  Allardice  was  apprenticed  to  Robert  Scott, 
who  had  been  a  pupil  of  Robert  Strange,  and 
who,  coming  to  America,  was  made  die-sinker  to 
the  Mint.  He  had  previously  made  the  archi- 
tectural plates  for  Dobson's  Encyclopaedia. 

Only  one  example  of  the  book-plate  work  of 
Allardice  is  now  at  hand,  and  that  is  simply  an 
engraved  label  for  the  Library  Company  of  Balti- 
more.  Ornamented  with  flourishes,  and  some 
fancy  work,  it  is  yet  of  no  merit  as  a  book-plate 
or  an  example  of  art. 


Alexander  Anderson,  who  was  the  first 
American  wood-engraver,  was  born  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  April  21,  1775,  and  lived  to  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-five  years,  dying,  in  1S70, 
in  Jersey  City,  N.J.,  on  the  17th  of  February. 

At  the  age  of  twelve,  with  the  spring  of  a 
pocket-knife,  sharpened  for  the  purpose,  he  tried 


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Early  Americaii  Engravers.      119 

to  engrave  on  copper  pennies  rolled  thin.  In  this 
way  he  made  his  first  plate,  which  was  a  head  of 
Paul  Jones  ;  and  his  first  impression  from  it  was 
made  in  red  oil  paint  by  a  rude  kind  of  a  press 
of  his  own  contrivance.  With  tools  made  by  a 
blacksmith,  he  went  on  to  cut  little  ships  and 
houses  on  type  metal  for  the  newspapers.  Being 
in  some  way  led  to  take  an  interest  in  certain 
medical  works,  he  copied  many  of  the  plates,  and 
his  father,  feeling  that  this  was  a  true  sign  of  his 
fitness  for  the  profession  of  medicine,  and  not 
discerning  the  talent  for  engraving,  placed  him 
with  Dr.  Joseph  Young,  as  a  student  of  medicine. 

This  step  was  taken  with  great  reluctance  by 
the  youth  ;  but  he  found  time  for  both  the  cares 
of  his  new  study,  and  for  the  pleasures  of  his 
old  pastime.  Various  successes  encouraged  him, 
and  in  1793  he  cut  a  tobacco-stamp  on  wood, 
which  appears  to  have  been  his  first  use  of  that 
material.  Soon  after  this,  he  obtained  a  copy  of 
Bewick's  "  Quadrupeds,"  and  with  the  cuts  found 
therein  he  was  delighted.  They  had  a  strong 
influence  upon  his  later  work,  and  he  has  been 
well  called  the  "  American  Bewick,"  for  his  small 
wood-cuts  closely  resemble  those  of  the  English 
master  in  design,  and  his  prominence  in  this 
country  was  equal  to  Bewick's  in  England. 

A  life  of  Dr.  Anderson  has  lately  (1S93)  l^een 
issued  in  New  York ;  but,  to  the  disappointment 
of  book-plate  collectors,  not  a  word  is  said  of  his 
making  book-plates. 

Of  the  seven  plates  by  Anderson  known  at  pres- 
ent, four  are  on  wood,  and  three  are  on  copper. 


I20 


American  Book-plates. 


Only  one  of  those  on  wood  is  signed.  The 
Lot  Tripp  and  Josh.  Russell  plates  are  simple 
labels,   and    the    Typographical  Society   of  New 


JOHN  PINTAED,  LL,  B. 


York  and  the  John  Pintard,  LL.D.,  which  is 
signed,  are  pictorial.  In  the  former,  the  emblems 
and  implements  of  the  printing  trade  are  promi- 
nent, and  in  the  Pintard^  which  is  a  fine  example 


Early  American  Engravers.      121 

of  Anderson's  best  work  on  wood,  the  shield  of 
arms  is  shown  with  a  landscape  for  background. 
The  plates  on  copper  are  the  Anderson,  which 


e^n/ei/^    c^f/ 


is  a  Chippendale,  the  Apprentices  Library,  and 
the  Columbia  College,  which  are  allegorical. 
All  the  above  will  be  found  described  in  the 

List. 


122  Americmi  Book-plates. 

There  is  a  plate  of  the  Appre7iticcs  Library 
Company  of  PJiiladelphia  which  strongly  resem- 
bles the  wood-cut  work  of  Anderson,  but  as  it  is 
not  signed  it  is  not  safely  attributed  to  him.  In 
the  plate  of  A.  Griggs  of  Philadelphia,  an  even 
more  marked  resemblance  to  his  little  designs  on 
w^ood  is  seen,  but  this,  too,  is  not  signed. 


Annin  and  Smith.  This  firm  consisted  of 
W.  B.  Annin  and  George  C.  Smith,  and  they 
were  established  in  Boston  from  1820  to  1837. 
Annin  died  in  1839,  in  Boston,  and  Smith,  who 
lived  to  quite  an  advanced  age,  died  in  1878. 
They  engraved  a  number  of  plates  for  the 
"  Token,"  and  for  other  annuals  so  popular  sixty 
years  ago. 

The  plates  oi  Richard  Taylor  AucJnmity,  A.  L. 
Pcirson,  William  H.  Prcscott,  John  Lowell  fr., 
and  an  armorial  plate  for  the  Boylston  Medical 
Library  are  signed  by  them,  and  will  be  found 
described  in  the  List. 


Abel  Bowen,  whose  name  appears  on  one  of 
the  plates  of  Harvard  College,  was  the  first  wood- 
ensfraver  in  Boston.     He  was  born  in  New  York 

o 

state  in  1790,  and  he  took  up  engraving  before 
he  was  of  age.  In  18 12  he  was  a  printer  in 
Boston,  probably  attracted  thither  by  his  uncle, 
who   was   the   proprietor  of  the  Columbian   Mu- 


Early  American  Engravers.      123 

seum.  Nathaniel  Dearborn  claims  to  be  the 
first  engraver  on  wood  in  Boston,  but  the  honor 
is  usually  accorded  to  Bowen.  He  issued,  in 
18 1 6,  the  "Naval  Monument,"  and  in  181 7  was 
associated  with  Dearborn  in  engraving  for  Shaw's 
"  History  of  Boston."  In  1834  Bowen,  with 
others,  founded  "  The  Boston  Bewick  Company," 
which  was  an  association  of  eno^ravers.  In  the 
following  year  they  issued  a  map  of  Boston,  and 
undertook  the  publishing  of  the  "American  Mag- 
azine." They  were  burned  out  in  this  same  year. 
Bowen  died  in  1850. 


John  Boyd,  who  engraved  the  plate  of  Samuel 
Chase,  which  is  taken  to  be  the  plate  of  the 
signer  of  the  Declaration,  was  a  Philadelphia 
engraver.  This  is  the  only  specimen  of  his  work 
on  book-plates  which  we  have,  and  it  is  a  very 
pretty  Chippendale  design,  delicately  engraved. 

In  Dunlap,  a  J.  Boyd  is  simply  mentioned, 
who  was  engraving  in  Philadelphia  in  181 2. 
This,  if  the  engraver  of  the  Chase  plate,  would 
make  him  rather  young  at  the  time  of  doing  it, 
and  it  is  very  good  work,  and  not  the  experiment 
of  a  novice.  Whether  this  is  the  same  engraver, 
I  do  not  know. 


Joseph  Callender  was  born  in  Boston,  May  6, 
1 75 1.  Very  little  is  known  about  him,  but  he  is 
reported    to   have   acquired   the  plates   of   Peter 


124  American  Book-plates. 

Pelham,  who  was  presumably  the  first  to  engrave 
on  copper  in  America,  and  to  have  destroyed 
them.  Callender  made  most  of  the  dies  for  the 
second  Massachusetts  Mint,  at  a  cost  of  £i  a^s. 
each.  This  was  considered  an  exorbitant  price 
by  the  superintendent,  who  made  a  contract  with 
a  Newburyport  artisan,  Jacob  Perkins.  Callender 
received  ^48  \2S.  for  making  thirty-nine  dies^ 
and  repairing  three  others,  while  Perkins  received 
but  ^3  I  Si-.  \Qd.  for  his  work.  Callender  died 
in  Boston,  Nov.  10,  1821,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Granary  Burying  Ground. 

The  only  Chippendale  plate  by  Callender  is  a 
copy  of  the  Atkinson  plate  by  Hurd,  and  is  for 
a  member  of  the  same  family.  As  compared 
with  its  model,  this  plate  shows  very  little  dif- 
ference, it  is  so  close  a  copy,  but  the  motto  ribbon 
which  is  added  is  more  graceful  than  those  of 
Hurd  usually  were,  the  heraldic  drawing  is  quite 
as  good,  and  the  lettering  of  the  name  is  better. 
Callender,  of  course,  would  not  have  begun  to 
engrave  much  before  Hurd's  death;  indeed,  the 
preponderance  of  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath  style 
in  his  designs  goes  to  show  that  his  work  dated 
towards  the  close  of  the  century. 

His  plates  in  this  style  are  very  light  and 
graceful,  with  no  overloading ;  and  a  faithful  use 
of  the  usual  features  of  the  style  is  apparent. 

In  the  Russell  plate  he  was  again  a  copyist, 
using  for  his  model  the  Joseph  Barrell  plate. 
The  plates  for  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences,  and  for  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society  are  practically  alike ;  the  curtain,  and  the 


'i^//u/a^  ty/MifeZ/f 


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125 


126  American  Book-plates. 

ribbon  and  festooning  are  very  similar,  while  the 
view  within  the  oval  frame  is,  of  course,  adapted 
to  the  use  of  the  books  of  the  respective  societies. 
Callender  would  seem  by  these  signs  to  have 
been  a  lazy  engraver,  or  to  have  considered  his 
designs  so  perfect  as  to  call  for  no  further  effort. 


A    LIST    OF    BOOK-PLATES    SIGNED    BY    CALLENDER. 

Andrews Pictorial. 

William  King  Atkinson Chippendale. 

Jonathan  Baldwin ... 

Luke  Baldwin ... 

Boylston  Medical  Library Plain  armorial. 

John  Callender Pictorial. 

Thomas  Cary Ribbon  and  AVreath. 

William  Erving Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Francis Plain  armorial. 

Hasty  Pudding  Library Pictorial. 

Massachusetts  Medical  Society      .     .     .  Allegorical. 

Thomas  Russell Allegorical. 

Daniel  Sargent,  Jr Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Sullivan Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

James  Swan Plain  armorial. 

Dudley  Atkins  Tyng Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Solomon  Vose Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


A    LIST    OF    PLATES    ATTRIBUTED    TO    CALLENDER, 
ALTHOUGH    NOT    SIGNED. 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Allegorical. 

William  Emerson Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Gray Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Dr.  John  Jeffries Plain  armorial. 

Porcellain  Library Allegorical. 


Early  American  Engravers.      127 

Cephas  G.  Childs,  who  engraved  the  plate  of 
Henry  D.  Gilpin,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  in 
1793.  In  the  years  1827  to  1830,  he  published 
a  set  of  views  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  its 
vicinity  (Baker). 


Henry  Dawkins  was  an  engraver  of  but  few 
original  ideas,  if  we  may  judge  him  rightly  by  his 
book-plate  work.  In  this  he  w^as  very  largely  a 
copyist.  Working  altogether  in  the  Chippendale 
style,  his  designs  for  the  most  part  are  varia- 
tions of  one  general  plan,  which  seems  to  have 
been  borrowed  from  an  English-made  plate.     In 


128  American  Book-plates. 

his  plates  we  see  "  Chippendalism  run  wild." 
Here  are  introduced  the  love-sick  swains  who 
play  upon  the  flute ;  the  dandy  shepherds  in  stiff 
clothes  of  the  most  fashionable  cut,  flowing  curls, 
and  large  felt  hats;  the  flirting  young  damsels 
in  very  low-cut  bodices,  who  play  at  being  shep- 
herdesses for  the  sake  of  following  the  above- 
mentioned  gentle  keeper  of  sheep.  Here  are 
the  music-loving  Cupids,  the  scantily  clad  females 
who  are  attended  by  the  Cupids,  and  who  are 
far  from  home  among  the  trees  of  the  wood. 
In  \\\^  James  Diiane  plate  we  find  a  fountain  is 
fixed  to  the  side  of  the  frame,  and  is  spouting 
water  from  the  mouth  of  a  man's  head. 

But  the  plates  of  Samuel  Jones,  Sa77iiicl  Strhiger, 
and  Peter  W.  Yates  are  proof  that  Dawkins  could 
confine  himself  to  the  legitimate  features  of  good 
Chippendale  plates.  In  these  no  outside  objects 
are  introduced,  and  the  design  is  good. 

We  do  not  know  much  about  Dawkins.  Dun- 
lap  says  he  was  probably  from  England,  and  that 
he  was  first  noticed  in  New  York.  Originally 
he  was  an  ornamenter  of  buttons  and  other  small 
bits  of  metal,  but  in  America  he  worked  at  any- 
thing that  offered,  "  suiting  himself  to  the  poverty 
of  the  arts  at  the  time."  Dunlap  dates  him  about 
1774,  evidently  on  the  strength  of  the  word  of 
Dr.  Anderson,  who  remembered  to  have  seen 
"  shop-bills  and  coats-of-arms  for  books,"  done 
by  him  previous  to  1775.  However,  in  1761,  he 
engraved  music  for  a  book  of  Psalm  Tunes  pub- 
lished in  that  year  in  Philadelphia.  His  earliest 
dated  book-plate  is  that  of  John  Burnet  {ij^^^). 


Early  American  Engravers.      129 

He  was  skilful  enough  to  make  counterfeit  Con- 
tinental currency,  but  not  to  avoid  arrest ;  and  in 
1776  we  find  him  suffering  for  this  misdeed. 
Some  time  later,  he  forwarded  the  following 
unique  petition  to  the  Committee  of  Safety :  — 


"May  it  please  Your  Honours,  —  The  subscriber  humbly 
relying  on  the  known  goodness  and  humanity  of  this  honourable 
house,  begs  leave  to  lay  his  complaint  before  them,  which  is 
briefly  as  follows.  That  your  petitioner  was  about  six  months 
past  taken  upon  Long  Island  for  a  trespass  which  this  house  is 
thoroughly  acquainted  as  by  Israel  Youngs  he  was  led  away  to 
perform  an  action  of  which  he  has  sincerely  repented  and  your 
petitioner  was  torn  away  from  an  only  son  who  was  left  among 
strangers  without  any  support,  or  protection  during  the  in- 
clemency of  the  approaching  winter,  as  his  unhappy  father  hath 
since  the  first  day  he  was  taken  had  but  one  shirt  and  one  pair 
of  stockings  to  shift  himself,  and  hath  been  aiffected  during  his 
imprisonment  at  White  Plains  with  that  worst  of  enemies  hun- 
ger, and  a  nauseous  stench  of  a  small  room  where  some  twenty 
persons  were  confined  together  which  hath  introduced  a  sickness 
on  your  distressed  subscriber  which  with  the  fatigue  of  travelling 
hath  reduced  your  unhappy  petitioner  to  a  state  of  despondency 
—  he  therefore  being  weary  of  such  a  miserable  life  as  his 
misconduct  has  thrown  him  into  begs  for  a  termination  by  death 
to  be  inflicted  upon  him  in  what  manner  the  honourable  House 
may  see  fit.  The  kind  compliance  of  this  honourable  House  will 
ever  lay  an  obligation  on  your  distressed  humble  servent 

Henry  Dawkins." 

We  do  not  know  in  what  manner  the  honor- 
able house  received  this  extraordinary  petition ; 
but,  as  book-plates  are  in  existence  in  his  later 
style,  probably  it  was  not  granted.  Dawkins 
used  three  distinct  varieties  of  the  Chippendale 
style.  The  plates  of  Benjamin  Kissavi,  the  L2td- 
low  and  Roome  plates,  the  Whitehead  Hicks  and 
the   James  Duane  are  examples  of  the  debased 


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American  Book-plates. 


Chippendale.  He  had  also  a  style  which  is  illus- 
trated by  the  Hopkinson,  Samuels,  and  Tomlinson 
plates,  which  is  closely  allied  to  the  style  of  the 

The  same  hissing  dragon, 


Buslwod  Washington 


llDj!WKms.  Sculp 


the  same  tilt  to  the  whole  desion  and  the  simi- 
larity  in  detail  and  execution  have  led  to  the 
question  of  his  being  the  engraver  of  the  latter 
plate.  It  is  not  a  question  easy  to  decide,  and 
collectors  are  divided   over  the  question.     This 


Early  American  Engravers.      131 

style  of  plate  came  originally  from  England,  we 
can  be  sure ;  and  as  Dawkins  is  seen  to  be  a 
copyist,  it  is  quite  as  likely  that  he  copied  from 
the  Bushrod  Washington  plate,  as  that  he  de- 
signed it.  He  always  used  a  squarer  copper  than 
the  Washington  plate  is  engraved  upon ;  but  this 
has  evidences  of  having  been  cut  down  after 
engraving.  The  present  writer  does  not  think  the 
plate  can  be  safely  attributed  to  Dawkins.  The 
Child  and  Jones  plates  exemplify  the  third  style. 

The  debased  Chippendale  plates  which  Daw- 
kins made  were  apparently  copied  from  an 
English  example  he  had  seen. 

A   LIST   OF   BOOK-PLATES   SIGNED    BY   DAWKINS. 

Gerard  Bancker Chippendale. 

John  Burnet,  1754 Chippendale. 

Francis  Child Chippendale. 

James  Duane Chippendale. 

Francis  Hopkinson,  I    ^^^  Chippendale. 

Joseph  Hopkinson,   j 

Whitehead  Hicks Chippendale. 

Archibald  Hunter •  •  • 

Samuel  Jones Chippendale. 

Benjamin  Kissam Chippendale. 

John  Cooke  Ludlow Chippendale. 

Gab.  Willm.  Ludlow Chippendale. 

Jacob  Roome Chippendale. 

John  L.  C.  Roome Chippendale. 

James  Samuels Chippendale. 

Samuel  Stringer Chippendale. 

William  Sword Chippendale. 

John  Tomlinson Chippendale. 

Unidentified Chippendale. 

Josias  Short  Vavasour Chippendale. 

W Whitebread Chippendale. 

Peter  W.  Yates Chippendale. 


132  American  Book-plates. 

The  plates  of  Cornclitis  Low  and  Lambert 
Moore,  although  not  signed,  are  attributed  to 
Dawkins. 


Nathaniel  Dearborn  was  born  in  1786,  and 
was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Dearborn,  a  man  of 
attainments  in  science.  Nathaniel  was  one  of 
the  first  wood-engravers  in  Boston,  and  was 
associated  with  Abel  Bowen  for  a  time. 

The  only  armorial  book-plate  signed  by  Dear- 
born is  the  Charles  Beck,  which  is  a  peculiar 
design,  following  no  particular  style,  but  making 
a  pretty  plate. 

A  second  plate  signed  by  Dearborn  is  the 
simple  engraved  verse  for  Lsaac  Child. 


Amos  Doolittle,  who  was  born  in  1754,  was 
one  of  the  first  engravers  of  historical  scenes  in 
America.  In  Barber's  "  History  and  Antiquities 
of  New  Haven,"  published  in  1 831,  is  an  adver- 
tisement of  "  four  different  views  of  the  Battle  of 
Lexington,  Concord,  etc.  on  the  19  April  1775." 
A  list  of  the  plates  follows,  and  it  is  remarked 
that  they  were  "  neatly  engraved  on  copper  from 
original  paintings  taken  on  the  spot."  In  a  note 
which  follows,  it  is  further  remarked  that  the 
pictures  were  first  drawn  by  Mr.  Earl,  who  w^as 
a  portrait  painter,  and  who  with  Mr.  Doolittle 
was  a  member  of  the  Governor's  Guard  which 
went  to  CambridQ:e  and  the  scene  ol  action  under 
the  command  of  Arnold. 


Early  American  Engravers.      133 

As  a  maker  of  book-plates,  Doolittle  was  fond 
of  the  allegorical  style.  He  made  two  plates  for 
the  Societies  of  Yale  College,  and  one  for  the 
village  library  of  Wcfhersficld.  The  latter  is  an 
ornamental  label  only,  but  the  former  are  quite 
elaborate  examples  of  the  allegorical.    The  plates 


cu^if; 


of  Benjamin  S.  Brooks,  in  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath 
style,  and  Charles  H.  Wetmore,  which  is  a  copy 
of  one  of  Maverick's  favorite  designs,  complete 
the  number  of  his  signed  examples.  The  Gtiil- 
ford  Libj^ary  and  George  Goodwin  plates,  which 
have  some  features  in  common  with  the  Wethers- 
field  Library,  are  confidently  attributed  to  him. 


134  American  Book-plates. 

Benjamin  S.  Brooks Ribbon  and  Wreath, 

Brothers  in  Unity Allegorical. 

Linonian  Library Allegorical. 

Social  Library,  Wethersfield      ....  Literary. 

Charles  H.  Wetmore Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


Gideon  Fairman,  whose  signature  is  on  one 
of  the  plates  of  Hairy  McMurtrie  and  one  of 
the  Linonian  Society  of  Yale  College,  was  born  in 
Connecticut  in  1774.  He  showed  an  early  fond- 
ness for  engraving,  and  made  rude  attempts 
which  showed  undoubted  talent.  In  18 10,  having 
made  himself  a  master  of  his  art,  he  went  into 
partnership  with  Murray,  Draper,  and  others,  in 
Philadelphia.  He  made  considerable  money,  and 
went  over  to  England  with  Jacob  Perkins,  where, 
with  Charles  Heath  for  a  third  partner,  they  were 
successful  but  for  a  short  time,  the  extravagance 
of  Murray  proving  their  ruin. 


John  Mason  Furnass  was  the  nephew  of  Hurd, 
to  whom  the  latter  left  his  engraving  tools  by 
will,  as  the  young  man  showed  so  much  ability 
in  the  art  practised  by  his  widely  known  uncle. 

He  was  also  a  painter  of  portraits,  and  he  had 
a  studio  in  Boston,  which  was  also  used  by 
Trumbull. 

The  only  plate  signed  by  this  engraver,  which 
the  present  writer  has  seen,  is  the  Eli  Forbes. 
This  plate  shows  but  few  traces  of  the  influ- 
ence of  Hurd.     It  is  a  Chippendale  design,  but 


Early  American  Engravers.       135 

is  not  in  either  of  the  characteristic  modes  of 
Hurd.  It  is  an  ambitious  plate,  and  was  meant 
to  be  very  fine,  evidently.     It  is  full  of  flourishes, 


L^  (/arm^ 


JI^^'OnsfA 


and  the  little  spiral  flourish  at  the  lower  right- 
hand  side  is  wholly  out  of  place  ;  the  robin  picking 
rose  leaves  at  the  side  is  an  innovation.  The 
scrolls    under   the    name    are   somewhat   in    the 


136 


Ainerican  Book-plates. 


manner  of  Hurd.  The  heraldic  drawing  is  poor, 
and  the  bunch  of  arrows  between  the  shield  and 
the  crest  must  be  in  allusion  to  the  occupation  of 
the  owner,  who  was  a  missionary  to  the  Indians. 


There  is  said  to  be  a  plate  by  Furnass  owned 
in  Boston,  by  the  name  of  Foster,  but  no  definite 
knowiedse  of  it  has  been  obtained. 


E.  Gallaudet,  who  signed   the   plate  for  the 
New  York  Society  Library  and  the  plate  of  John 


Early  American  Engravers.       137 

Chambers,  was  one  Elisha  Gallaudet,  who  prac- 
tised his  art  in  New  York  City  towards  the  end 
of  the  last  century. 

Edward  Gallaudet,  a  relative  of  the  above, 
was  superior  to  him  as  an  engraver,  and  the 
Gallaudet  plate  mentioned  in  the  List  is  by  him. 
He  was  of  the  present  century. 


Abraham  Godwin  was  born  in  New  Jersey  in 
1763.  He  was  intended  for  the  profession  of  the 
law,  and  was  placed  in  the  office  of  his  brother, 
at  Fishkill,  in  New  York  state.  Both  men  joined 
the  army,  however ;  and  when  Abraham  returned 
to  his  home,  it  was  to  take  up  the  art  of  engraving, 
towards  which  he  had  had  an  inclination  from 
boyhood,  when  he  made  his  first  attempts  on  the 
silver  plate  of  his  friends,  with  a  graver  made  by 
a  blacksmith. 

The  only  example  of  his  book-plate  work  is  a 
plate  fully  described  under  the  heading,  "  Uni- 
dentified," in  the  List.  Most  unfortunately,  the 
only  example  known  has  the  family  name  torn 
out.  The  first  name  is  John.  The  plate  is 
rather  rudely  engraved,  but  is  quite  ambitious, 
showing  the  interior  of  a  large  room,  which  might 
be  either  a  school-room  or  a  library. 


S.  Harris,  who  engraved  the  pictorial  plates 
of  Henry  Andrews  and  the  anonymous  Williams, 
was  a  New  England  engraver,  who  was  in  Boston 
about  1798. 


138  American  Book-plates. 

Charles  P.  Harrison,  who  signed  the  plain 
armorial  book-plates  of  William  Belts  and  David 
Paul  Brown,  was  a  son  of  William  Harrison,  an 
English  engraver,  who  came  to  New  York  in 
1794,  and  was  for  a  time  an  instructor  of  Peter 
Maverick  the  second. 


Samuel  Hill  was  a  copper-plate  engraver  in 
Boston,  about  1 790,  and  his  work  consisted  mostly 
of  portraits  and  book  work. 

The  following  are  examples  of  his  work: — 

Willm.  P.  &  I..  Blake's  Circulating  Li- 
brary at  the  lioston  Book  Store  .     .     .  Ornamented  label. 

Charles  Pierpont Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

William  W'inthrop Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Also  the  plate  of  Sand.  Hill,  which  is  of  a 
literary  flavor,  is  probal^ly  the  engraver's  own 
plate. 


S.  S.  JocELYN,  of  New  Haven,  who  made  a 
very  handsome  plate  for  the  Bj^others  in  Unity 
of  Yale  College,  became  an  engraver  of  vignettes 
for  bank-notes. 


Thomas  Johnson  was  born  in  Boston  in  1708. 
He  was  buried  in  King's  Chapel  Burying-ground, 
May  8,  1767.     He  engraved  Psalm  Tune  plates 


Early  American  Engravers.       139 

for  the  Tate  and  Brady  edition  of  1 760,  and  did 
some  commendable  work  as  a  herald  painter.  In 
the  inventory  of  his  estate,  fifteen  copper  plates 
are  appraised  at  40^-. 

Only  one  specimen  of  his  book-plate  work  is 
authenticated,  and  that  is  the  Joseph  Tyler,  which 
is  signed  in  full,  — Johnson. 

*     *     * 

Thomas  Johnston  signs  the  very  beautiful 
Jacobean  plate  of  William  P.  Smith,  A.M.,  and 
the  rougher  Chippendale  of  Samuel  Willis. 
Whether  this  is  the  same  engraver  as  the  above 
is  uncertain ;  the  difference  in  the  spelling  of  the 
name  would  not  disprove  the  claim,  as  in  those 
days  such  differences  were  frequent.  The  Willis 
plate  bears  strong  resemblance  to  the  work  and 
designs  of  Hurd.  If  this  is  the  same  engraver 
as  the  above,  these  two  plates  are  likely  to  be  the 
earliest  signed  plates  by  an  American,  as  Johnson 
was  born  some  twenty  years  before  Hurd.  The 
Willis  plate  is  quite  inferior  to  the  Smith,  which 
latter  is  a  striking  example  of  the  Jacobean  style. 


Francis  Kearney,  who  signs  the  plate  oi  Henry 
McMurtrie  and  Hector  Coffin,  was  born  in  1 780. 
He  was  a  pupil  of  Peter  R.  Maverick,  who  re- 
ceived two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  instruct- 
ing him  for  three  years.  The  advantage  was 
all   with    Maverick.     Soon   after  the   opening  of 


140  American  Book-plates. 

the  century,  he  was  engaged  with  Anderson,  the 
younger  Maverick,  Boyd,  and  others,  in  engraving 
plates  for  a  quarto  Bible  published  by  Mr.  Collins, 
of  New  York. 

In  1 8 10  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  as  that 
city  was  far  ahead  of  New  York  in  the  publishing 
of  books,  etc.  He  was  in  that  city  for  over 
twenty  years.  His  greatest  work  is  the  engraving 
of  Leonardo  da  Vinci's  picture  of  the  "  Last 
Supper." 

*     *     * 

Peter  Rushton  Maverick  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, April  II,  1755,  and  came  to  America  about 
1774.  He  was  originally  a  silversmith,  and  came 
of  a  family  whose  members  were  for  several 
generations  well  known  as  engravers,  and  who 
made  the  art  their  occupation.  He  was  an  ener- 
getic worker,  getting  most  of  his  practical  knowl- 
edge by  his  own  endeavors.  He  was  the  teacher 
of  William  Dunlap  and  of  Francis  Kearney,  as 
well  as  of  his  own  son,  who  ultimately  became  a 
more  proficient  engraver  than  his  father,  and,  who 
after  instructing  A.  B.  Durand  for  five  years,  took 
him  into  partnership. 

Peter  R.  Maverick  died  in  New  York,  about 
1807,  '^'^^  ^''^s  son  Peter  whose  partnership  with 
Durand  resulted  disastrously,  died  in  1831. 

As  a  designer  and  engraver  of  book-plates, 
Maverick  was  the  most  prolific  of  atl  the  early 
engravers.  It  is  presumed  that  all  the  plates 
signed  either  P.  R.  Maverick,  or  simply  Maverick, 
were  by  the  same  hand,  as  a  large  collection  of 


\C..yy(/t-^  t,,a/£^cyb^y^,   '^^c^^ 


•'  o^^i-cn^xm^ 


,^^o-  eZ'  /Za^y?^.^-^, 


141 


142  A  vie  ri can  Book-plates. 

proofs  from  his  plates  which  furnislies  examples 
of  both  ways  of  signing  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  the 
librarian  informs  me  that  all  of  the  plates  in  that 
collection  were  done  in  1789  by  the  elder  Mav- 
erick. This  collection  consists  of  sixty-five  plates, 
of  which  thirty-eight  different  ones  are  signed  by 
Maverick.  There  are  also  others  which  are  un- 
doubtedly his  work,  although  not  signed,  and 
,  there  are  examples  by  Dawkins,  Hutt,  and  Child. 
Quite  a  number  of  the  plates  are  duplicated,  too. 
This  very  interesting  collection  of  proofs,  kept  by 
Maverick  himself,  and  sewed  together  roughly, 
was  in  the  library  of  his  friend,  John  Allan.  By  far 
the  greater  part  of  Maverick's  plates  are  of  the 
Ribbon  and  Wreath  style,  but  he  made  a  few  Jaco- 
beans,  a  few  Chippendales,  and  one  or  two  pic- 
torial and  allegorical  designs.  He  used  the  same 
features  over  and  over  in  his  plates,  and  seems  to 
have  been  a  rapid  worker.  The  plates  in  the  fol- 
lowing list  marked  *'  are  by  the  younger  Maverick. 

A   LIST   OF   BOOK-PLATES    SIGNED    BY   MAVERICK. 

Anonymous Plain  armorial. 

Anonymous  (Jacob  Brown)       ....  Pictorial. 

Flamen  Ball Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Abraham  Bancker Pictorial. 

Absalom  Blackley Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Philip  Brasher Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

*Epaphroditus  Champion,  Jr.        ...  Plain  armorial. 

De  Witt  Clinton Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

William  Cock Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

James  S.  Cutting Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

William  Cutting Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


Early  American  Engravers.      143 

John  Cuyler Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Frederick  De  Peyster Plain  armorial. 

Barnard  Elliott Plain  armorial. 

Erasmus  Hall  Library Allegorical. 

Ebenezer  Foot Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


0?l.,.,e„^^  t^LjLy:> 


,*J^I^P 


XLXfi^^?'ayAa^/i^/lAda^^^ 


Andrew  J.  Fraunces Plain  armorial. 

James  Gibs .... 

James  Giles Military. 

*Elias  Hicks Plain  armorial. 

Philip  L.  Hoffmann Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Horanian  Society  Library Allegorical. 

William  J.  Hunter  . Ribbon  and  A\'reath. 


144  American  Book-plates. 

John  I.  Johnson Pictorial. 

John  Johnston Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Thomas  Johnston Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Benjamin  S.  Judah Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Keese Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Keese Ornamental  label. 

Rufus  King Ribbon  and  \Vreath. 

Isaac  L.  Kip Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Edward  Livingston Landscape. 

Maturin  Livingston Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

William  Smith  Livingston Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Hugh  McLean Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Peter  Masterton Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Maxwell Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

*  Nathaniel  F.  Moore Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

New  York  Society  Library Allegorical. 

New  York  Society  Library Allegorical. 

*Le\vis  Morris  Ogden Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Francis  Panton,  Jr Landscape. 

W.  Paulding .... 

William  L.  Pierce Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Pintard Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

William  Popham Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Halcott  B.  Pride Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Samuel  Provoost Ribbon  and  ^Vreath. 

William  Seton Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Sitgreaves Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

James  Scott  Smith Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Thomas  Smith,  Jr. . Ribbon  and  AVreath. 

Thomas  J.  Smith ;     .     .  .... 

-William  Smith Ribl)on  and  Wreath. 

William  Taylor Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

*James  Thompson Plain  armorial. 

Thomas  Tillotson Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

P.  I.  Van  Berkel Plain  armorial. 

K.  K.  Van  Rensselaer Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Prosper  Wetmore Ribbon  and  ^Yreath. 

Polydore  B.  Wisner     .......  Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


Early  Aniericaii  Engravers.       145 


A     LIST     OF     PLATES     ATTRIBUTED     TO    MAVERICK, 
ALTHOUGH    NOT    SIGNED. 

James  Agnew,  Esq Chippendale. 

Boudinet Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Charles  Bridgen Plain  armorial. 

Willm.  Duer Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

John  Goelet Jacobean. 

Herbert Chippendale. 

Morgan  Lewis,  Esq Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Rob't  R.  Livingston,  Esq.,  of  Cleremont,  Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Walter  Livingston Chippendale. 

Jonathan  Meredith,  Jr Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Joseph  Murray Chippendale. 

William  Pasley Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Saml.  Provoost.  Coll.  Pet.  Cant.     .     .     .  Chippendale. 

William  Stephens Jacobean. 

John  C.  Ten  Broeck Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Stephen  Van  Rensselaer Plain  armorial. 


Oliver  Pelton,  who  engraved  a  plate  for  the 
Brothers  in  Unity,  at  Yale  College,  was  born  in 
Portland,  Conn.,  in  1 799,  and  learned  his  trade 
with  Abner  Read,  a  bank-note  engraver,  of  Hart- 
ford. He  was  an  assiduous  worker,  and  was 
taken  into  partnership  after  two  years'  work,  with 
Mr.  Read  and  one  Samuel  Stiles.  Samuel  G, 
Goodrich  (Peter  Parley)  soon  induced  him  to  go 
to  Boston  with  him,  to  engage  in  the  engraving 
of  plates  for  his  works.  This  enterprise  was  suc- 
cessful, and  in  1863  Pelton  formed  a  partnership 
with  William  D.  Terry,  which  was  the  foundation 
of  the  New  England  Bank-Note  Company  of 
Boston.  The  plate  mentioned  is  the  only  exam- 
ple of  his  work  on  book-plates. 


146 


Americmi  Book-plates. 


R.  Rawdon,  who  signs  the  plate  of  William 
L.  Stone,  which  is  a  very  handsome  steel-plate 
design,  was  born  in  Tolland,  Conn.,  and  was 
associated  with  his  brother  in  Albany.  The 
brother  subsequently  moved  to  New  York. 


Paul  Revere,  the  Revolutionary  patriot  whose 
"  midnight  ride  "  is  known  the  world  over,  was 
born  in  Boston,  January  i,  1735,  and  died  there 
on  the  loth  of  May,  1818,  after  a  life  of  great 
usefulness,  leaving  a  name  never  to  be  forgotten. 


Early  American  Engravers.      147 

He  came  of  a  Huguenot  family,  who  spelled 
the  name  Rivoire  originally. 

He  was  self-instructed  in  the  art  of  engravino- 
on  copper,  although  brought  up  by  his  father  to 
the  business   of  a  goldsmith.     He  went  on  the 


Crown  Point  expedition,  1756,  and  after  his 
return,  married,  and  settled  down  to  the  business 
he  had  already  learned.  He  was  naturally  fond 
of  mechanics,  and  made  himself  master  of  its 
general  principles.     One  of  his  earliest  attempts 


148 


American  Book-plates. 


on  copper  was  the  portrait  of  his  friend,  Dr. 
Mayhew.  He  also  engraved  several  caricatures 
which  were  popular,  and  some  historical  pictures 
which  are  valuable  now  to  the  collector. 


Not  many  book-plates  have  come  down  to  us 
by  this  celebrated  patriot,  and  the  following  list 
comprises  all  that  are  signed. 

Gardiner  Chandler Chippendale. 

David  Greene Chippendale. 

Epes  Sargent Chippendale. 

William  Wetmore Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


Early  American  Engravers.      149 

Revere 's  plates  do  not  have  the  compact  ap- 
pearance of  Hurd's,  and  are  not  so  well  designed 
or  so  'well  engraved  as  the  latter's.  Presumably 
this  branch  of  work  was  not  very  profitable  to 
him,  or  very  much  cultivated. 

The  accompanying  design  was  undoubtedly  a 
book-plate,  and  beyond  question  is  the  work  of 
Revere.     It  is  a  very  rare  plate. 


William  Rollinson  was  born  in  England,  in 
the  year  1760.  He  was  in  youth  brought  up  to 
the  trade  of  ornamenting  buttons ;  and,  upon 
coming  to  New  York,  made  the  gilt  buttons 
which  decorated  the  coat  worn  by  Washington 
at  his  inauguration  as  President.  He  did  this 
without  remuneration,  so  thoroughly  sympathiz- 
ing with  the  country  of  his  adoption  as  to  feel 
the  honor  of  this  service  for  Washington  a  full 
compensation.  He  was,  through  the  friendship 
of  Messrs.  Elias  Hicks  and  John  C.  Ludlow,  rec- 
ommended to  the  publishers  of  Brown's  Family 
Bible,  for  which  he  made  several  plates.  Previous 
to  this,  he  found  work  in  the  shops  of  different 
silversmiths,  and  had  taught  himself  the  art  of 
engraving  on  copper.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
century,  Archibald  Robertson  painted  a  portrait 
of  Alexander  Hamilton,  which  Rollinson  boldly 
undertook  to  make  a  large  engraving  from.  He 
did  not  understand  all  the  processes  of  engraving, 
and  invented  such  as  he  was  compelled  to  use, 
as  he  went  on.     The  duel   in  which   Hamilton 


150  American  Book-plates. 

lost  his  life  occurred  before  the  portrait  was  fully 
engraved.  Indeed,  it  had  been  undertaken  more 
as  an  experiment  than  with  the  idea  of  sale ;  but 
the  friends  of  the  dead  statesman  urged  him  to 
complete  it,  which  he  did,  and  the  print  found  a 
good  sale.  Later,  Rollinson  invented  a  machine 
for  ruling  waved  lines,  which  was  of  vast  im- 
portance in  the  manufacture  of  bank-notes. 

As  an  engraver  of  book-plates,  he  adopted  the 
Ribbon  and  Wreath  style  naturally,  as  it  was 
the  style  in  vogue  when  he  took  up  the  work. 
He  made  one  or  two  plain  armorials,  and  for  the 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  one  of  more 
ambitious  design.  His  plates,  all  neat  in  design, 
are  clear,  skilful  engraving.  His  work  and  that  of 
Callender,  in  the  same  style,  resemble  each  other. 

The  following  plates  are  signed  by  Rollin- 
son:— 

Richard  Harrison  ........  Plain  armorial. 

Elias  Hicks Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

George  Ludlow Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

W.  T.  McCoun Plain  armorial. 

Horatio  Shepheard  Moat Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

New  York  College  of  Pharmacy     .     .     .  Ornamented  label. 

James  Adam  Smith Plain  armorial. 

Thomas  N.  Stanforth Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Teachers'  Union,  St.  George's  Church    .  Engraved  label. 

John  W.  Watkins,  A.M Ribbon  and  Wreath. 

Charles  Wilkes Plain  armorial. 

Azarias  Williams Ribbon  and  Wreath. 


J.  Smithers,  an  Englishman,  originally  a  gun- 
engraver  employed  in  the  Tower  of  London, 
came  to  Philadelphia  in  the  year  1773. 


Early  American  Engravers.      151 

He  had  a  good  name  as  a  man  and  as  an  en- 
graver, and  made  the  blocks  for  the  Continental 
money.  A  large  plan  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia 
on  three  plates,  which  was  his  work,  was  subse- 
quently purchased,  when  copper  was  scarce,  for 
thirty  dollars,  and  cut  up  into  smaller  pieces. 
Among  his  pupils  was  Trenchard,  of  whose  work 
we  have  a  few  examples. 

The  following  plates  are  signed  by  Smithers:  — 


John  Day Plain  armorial. 

Fenwick Chippendale. 

Henry  Hale  Graham Plain  armorial. 

John  Magill Chippendale. 

Henry  McMurtrie Pictorial. 


He  sometimes  signed  with  the  final  s,  and 
sometimes  without  it.  His  book-plates  are  not 
especially  brilliant  in  any  way,  but  are  good,  and 
in  the  pure  style.  His  finest  attempt  is  the  land- 
scape plate  for  Dr.  McMurtrie  of  Philadelphia. 


T.  Sparrow  was  an  obscure  engraver  on  wood, 
who  worked  at  his  trade  in  Annapolis  from  1 765 
to  about  1780,  and  who  did  considerable  work 
for  "  Ann  Catherine  Green  &  Son,  Printers,"  of 
that  town,  on  title-pages,  tail-pieces,  etc.  He 
engraved  on  copper  the  title-page  for  the  "  Deputy 
Commissary's  Guide  of  Maryland,"  published  by 
the  above  firm  in  1774,  and  which  is  a  creditable 
piece    of   work.     All    the   book-plates   known  at 


152  American  Book-plates. 

present  are  on  wood,  and  they  are  but  two  in 
number:  the  Richard  Sprigg  and  the  Gabriel 
Diivall,  both  of  whom  were  men  of  prominence 
in  the  colonial  times,  in  Maryland. 


William  D.  Terry,  who  was  mentioned  as  the 
founder,  with  Pelton,  of  the  Bank-Note  Company, 
in  Boston,  engraved  a  plate  for  the  Redwood 
Library,  of  Newport.  This  is  a  large  representa- 
tion of  the  library,  and  is  a  fine  piece  of  work. 


James  Thackara  was  a  partner  of  John  Val- 
lancc,  in  the  engraving  business,  and  they  were 
together  for  a  good  many  years.  Thackara  was 
inferior  to  his  partner  as  an  engraver,  according 
to  Dunlap,  and  was  for  a  long  time  the  keeper 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts. 

We  know  but  one  example  of  his  book-plate 
work,  and  that  is  the  Lenthall  plate,  which  is  a 
large  and  very  interesting  example  of  the  Ribbon 
and  Wreath  style.  It  is  an  excellent  piece  of 
engraving,  full  of  style,  and  graceful  in  design. 


James  Trenchard  was  born  in  Cumberland 
County,  New  Jersey,  about  1746.  He  was  a 
pupil  of  Smithers,  and  engraved  in   Philadelphia, 


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American  Book-plates. 


about  1785.  Among  his  pupils  were  Thackara, 
Vallance,  and  his  nephew,  Edward  Trenchard, 
who  became  an  ofificer  in  the  United  .States  Navy, 
and  served  in  the  War  of  18 12. 

Trenchard    was    one    of    the    owners    of    the 


"  Columbian  Magazine,"  published  in  Philadel- 
phia from  1786  to  1792,  and  he  engraved  many 
plates  for  its  pages. 

One  signed  book-plate  of  his  is  known,  —  the 
Bloo^nfielci.     This  is  a  Chippendale  plate   of   no 


Early  American  Engravers.       155 

striking  features.  The  Liithcr  Martin  plate  is 
so  similar  to  this  as  to  leave  hardly  any  doubt 
that  it  too  was  by  Trenchard. 


James  Turner  is  another  of  the  early  Ameri- 
can  artists   of  whom   very   little   is  known   now. 


He  was  at  one  time  in  Boston,  but  later  removed 
to  Philadelphia.  He  did  some  portrait  and  some 
music  work.  Of  his  book-plate  work  we  have 
but  three  signed  specimens.  By  far  the  most 
interesting  and  valuable  of  these  is  the  extremely 


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American  Book-plates. 


rare  plate  of  yohn  Franklin  of  Boston  in  N'ew 
England.  This  is  very  fully  described  in  the 
List  of  Early  American  Book-plates.     The  other 


plates  are  the  Sir  John  St.  Clair,  and  the  plate 
for  Isaac  Nor r is,  of  the  family  of  the  Quaker 
Chief  Justice  of  Pennsylvania. 


Early  American  Engravers.      157 

The  plate  of  James  Hall,  although  not  signed, 
is  also  attributed  to  him. 


John  Vallance,  whose  name  is  connected  with 
that  of  Thackara,  engraved  with  him  many  plates 


for  Dobson's  Encyclopaedia.  He  made  heads  of 
Franklin  and  Howard,  which  were  pronounced 
successful,  and  he  had  a  high  reputation  as  an 
engraver. 

One   authenticated   example  of  his  book-plate 


158  American  Book-plates. 

work  is  known,  the  Joseph  Wiseman,  in  the  Rib- 
bon and  Wreath  style ;  and  the  David  Brearly^ 
although  not  signed,  is  attributed  to  him. 


Of  the  other  engravers  whose  names  appear 
on  but  one  or  two  plates,  no  information  has 
been  obtained.  There  were  probably  many  who 
had  but  a  local  fame,  and  who  made  but  a  few 
plates.  Their  names  are  remembered  now  in  a 
way  not  expected  at  the  time  of  signing  them, 
undoubtedly. 


In  a  recent  article  on  Count  Rumford,  in  the 
"  New  England  Magazine,"  it  is  said  that,  when 
a  youth,  he  designed  book-plates.  No  authentic 
examples  of  his  work  are  known,  and  no  informa- 
tion can  be  obtained  concerning  any. 


Jacob  Hurd,  the  father  of  Nathaniel,  was  a 
goldsmith  of  Boston,  and  his  name  is  on  pieces 
of  plate  in  the  First  and  Second  churches  in 
Boston,  and  the  First  Church,  and  Christ  Church, 
in  Dorchester.  He  very  probably  made  book- 
plates, though  no  signed  work  is  known.  He 
died  in  1758.  He  appears  in  the  list  of  sub- 
scribers to  "  Prince's  Chronological  History  of 
New  England,"  as  taking  six  copies. 


Early  American  Engravers.      159 

In  the  "  Boston  Evening  Post,"  for  March  4, 
1745,  the  following  advertisement  appears:  — 

"  FR.4NCIS  Garden,  Engraver  from  London,  engraves  in  the 
newest  Manner  and  at  the  cheapest  Rates,  Coats-of- Arms,  Crests 
or  Cyphers  on  Gold,  Silver,  Pewter  or  Copper.  To  be  heard 
of  at  Mr.  Caverley's,  Distiller,  at  the  South  End  of  Boston. 
N.B.  He  will  wait  on  any  Person  in  Town  or  Country,  to  do 
their  Work  at  their  own  House,  if  desired  :  also  copper-plate 
printing  perform'd  by  him." 


No  signed  example  of  this  gentleman's  work 
has  thus  far  come  to  our  knowledge.  It  is  fair 
to  presume,  however,  that  he  engraved  book- 
plates. 


■Qua  "coMnEOTUB  irarLK, 


A    LIST    OF    EARLY    AMERICAN 
BOOK-PLATES. 


The  following  List  of  Early  American  Book-plates  makes  no 
claim  to  completeness  :  indeed  it  is  earnestly  hoped  and  be- 
lieved that  time  will  prove  it  to  be  quite  incomplete  :  old  plates 
new  to  collectors  are  continually  coming  to  light,  and  there  is 
every  reason  to  expect  their  number  to  increase.  We  are  per- 
suaded that  certain  of  the  worthies  of  colonial  times  used  book- 
plates, although  no  copies  are  now  known,  and  that  some  future 
investigator  will  unearth  these  much-desired  treasures. 

Some  plates  will  be  found  included  which  do  not  have  a 
satisfactory  description  :  this  is  due  to  their  not  being  seen  by 
the  compiler  of  the  List :  correspondents  at  a  distance  cannot 
always  send  full  details,  and  without  them  it  is  better  to  attempt 
little  in  the  way  of  description.  The  aim  has  been  to  be  accu- 
rate and  as  full  as  possible.  There  are  hundreds  of  simple 
name-labels  which  have  no  place  here,  but  all  armorial  examples 
which  could  be  discovered  are  mentioned. 

The  plates  are  given  in  alphabetical  order,  and  are  numbered 
for  convenience  in  reference.  As  far  as  possible,  the  first  line 
of  the  description  of  each  plate  gives  the  exact  wording  of  the 
original,  with  its  spelling  and  abbreviations  :  the  mottoes  also, 
as  well  as  the  manner  of  signature,  are  given  exactly  as  they 
appear  on  the  original  plate  :  wherever  throughout  this  List 
italics  are  used,  they  denote  the  exact  language  employed  upon 
the  plate. 

I.  Anonymous. 

Armorial.  A  very  beautiful  plate  with  French  arms  : 
a  crown  above  and  military  trophies  behind  the 
shield  :  French  banners,  cannon,  quivers  of  arrows, 
anchor,  horns,  swords,  drum,  tomahawks,  bugle, 
lances,  etc.  Signed,  Maingot  delt.  Maverick,  Set. 
1 60 


Rarly  Ainerican  Book-ptates.      i6i 


CH^z*n^f   «(^.-^ 


2.  Abercrombie.    James  Abercrombie. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Two  mottoes, 
Vive  7it  vivas,  and  Aleus  in  arduis  aeqiia.  Of 
Philadelphia,  and  mentioned  in  Boswell's  "  Life  of 
Dr.  Johnson." 

3.  Adams.    Joiiu  Adams. 

Armorial.  The  Boylston  arms.  The  shield  sur- 
rounded by  a  garter  on  which  the  motto  is  given, — 
Libertatem  amiciiiam  retenebis  etfidem.  The  whole 
design  surrounded  by  thirteen  stars.  Second  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States. 

4.  Adams.    John  Qiiincy  Adams. 

Simply  the  name  rudely  engraved  and  surrounded 
by  a  narrow  line.  Probably  the  first  of  the  J.  Q.  A. 
book-plates.     Sixth  President  of  the  United  States. 


1 62  American  Book-plates. 

5.  Adams.    John  Quincy  Adams. 

Armorial.  Boylston  arms.  Ribbon  and  Wreath. 
Motto-ribbon  empty. 

6.  Adams.    John  Quincy  Adams. 

Armorial.  The  Boylston  arms  ;  the  shield  enclosed 
within  a  garter,  on  which  the  motto  appears, — 
Fidem  —  Liber  tatem  — Amicitiam. 

7.  Adams.    John  Quincy  Adams. 

Armorial.  The  shield  is  quartered,  and  bears  in 
the  first  quarter  a  curious  specimen  of  home-made 
heraldry.  The  ancestors  of  the  President  bore  no 
arms,  and  in  their  place  appears  a  stag  standing  at 
gaze  before  a  pine  tree,  while  below  in  the  water  a 
fish,  probably  a  cod,  is  swimming  ;  the  whole  design 
surrounded  with  thirteen  stars.  This  was  his  own 
invention.  The  other  quarters  bear  the  Smith, 
Quincy,  and  Boylston  arms.  The  whole  shield  is 
surrounded  by  a  garter  bearing  the  motto  Fidcm, 
Libertatem,  Amicitiam  retinebis.    From  "Tacitus." 

8.  Agar.     Property,  Lydia  Agar.     1806. 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  bears  a  broad  ribbon,  on 
which  the  word  property  is  given ;  an  oval  frame 
encloses  what  resembles  a  row  of  eggs. 

9.  Agnew.    James  Agneiv^  Esq. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Consilio  non 
impefu.      Attributed  to  ]\Iaverick. 

10.   Aitkin.     Robert  Aitkin. 

Simple  name  label :  the  printer  of  the  "  Aitkin 
Bible."  Philadelphia,  1782.  The  first  American 
edition. 

It.    Albany.     Albany  Society  Library.     iys9- 

A  peculiar  plate  something  in  the  shape  of  the  fig- 
ure 8,  with  intertwining  foliations  above  and  at  the 
sides.  The  upper  part  of  the  frame  is  the  larger, 
and  contains  a  spirited  illustration  of  an  Indian  in 
ambush  aiming  an  arrow  at  a  leaping  fox.  On 
the  frame  surrounding  this  is  the  motto.  May 
concord  prevail  and  the  undertakeing  prosper.  In 
the   lower   and   smaller   part   is  depicted   a  prim 


Rarly  American  Book-plates.      163 

man,  bewigged  and  ruffled,  with  an  open  book  in 
his  hand ;  presumably  a  patron  of  the  Library. 
Very  httle  can  be  learned  concerning  this  early 
Library.  It  was  probably  interrupted  by  the  Revo- 
lution. Some  of  its  books  are  in  the  New  York 
State  Library. 

12.  Allan.    John  Allan. 

Pictorial.  An  open  book,  across  the  pages  of  which 
is  printed  the  name  of  the  owner.  Behind  all  an 
anchor.  This  is  the  plate  of  the  old  book  collector 
of  New  York  City. 

13.  Allen.    John  Allen. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Lmv  6^  Right.  This 
is  believed  to  be  the  plate  used  by  John  Allen,  an 
early  bookseller  of  Boston.  He  published  the 
"  News-Letter."  From  the  general  design  and  the 
crude  engraving,  it  must  be  taken  for  early  Amer- 
ican work:  circa  1720.  Illustrated  in  "Curio," 
page  15. 

14.  Allison.    Joseph  J.  Allison. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Hour-glass,  books,  globe, 
palette,  and  brushes,  grouped  above  the  escut- 
cheon. Motto,  Hinc  labor  et  virtus.  Of  Phila- 
delphia. 

15.  Alsop.     Richard  Alsop. 

Armorial.  Belongs  to  no  particular  style,  although 
the  ornamentation  is  of  Chippendale  tendency. 
Beneath  the  shield,  at  either  side,  stands  a  cupid 
holding  out  a  bunch  of  arrows  :  the  drawing  of 
these  iigures  is  not  above  criticism  :  they  seem  to 
to  have  one  arm  each,  and  but  one  wing  also.  A 
Connecticut  poet.  Born,  1761;  died,  1815.  One 
of  the  famous  "  Hartford  Wits." 

16.  Ambler.    Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

17.  American.     American    Academy   of  Arts   and   Sciences. 

MDCCLXX. 

A  very  handsome  plate,  having  a  large  curtain 
looped  back  by  ribbons  and  cords,  whereon  to 
record   the    name    of  the  giver   of  books   to  the 


164  Ainerican  Book-plates. 

library,  and  above  this  an  oval  vignette  represent- 
ing Minerva  yn'\\\\  shield  and  spear  in  hand,,  and 
helmet  on  her  head,  standing  upon  the  seashore 
(of  Massachusetts),  watching  a  three-master  which 
sails  far  away  under  a  glaring  sun  and  a  heavy  cloud  : 
through  a  corn-field  and  then  through  the  woods 
lies  the  path  to  the  distant  village  whose  roofs  can 
be  seen  :  on  the  sand  about  the  goddess  lie  scattered 
the  scientific  and  agricultural  implements,  the  uses 
of  which  it  was  the  function  of  the  Academy  to 
teach.  The  Academy  was  instituted  in  1779. 
Very  good  engraving  but  not  so  good  drawing. 
The  work  is  attributed  to  Callender. 

18.  Anderson.     A/cxr.  Anderson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Vigila.  Signed, 
A.  Anderson,  Sculp.  The  original  plate  had  only 
the  last  name  engraved  ;  the  first  name  was  added 
afterwards  and  evidently  by  a  different  hand.  This 
plate  is  sometimes  found  with  the  name  of  his 
brother,  John,  written  in  before  the  family  name, 
indicating  perhaps  that  the  plate  was  designed  for 
the  general  use  of  the  family.  This  is  the  plate  of 
Dr.  Anderson,  the  first  engraver  in  wood  in  America. 

19.  Andover.       Institntio     Theologica     Andover.       Fundata 

MDCCCVII. 

A  severely  plain  pediment,  raised  upon  Doric 
columns,  bearing  on  the  architrave  the  name.  A 
blaze  of  glory  above  has  in  the  centre  the  words, 
,11 .1\  Similar  rays  shine  over  the  open  Bible  at  the 
foot,  on  which  is  written,  Ps.  cxix,  169,  and  Joh. 
XVII,  17.  On  the  base  are  the  words,  AKOFfiNI 
20Y  XPI2T0Y. 

20.  Andrew.    John  Andrew. 

Pictorial.  The  implements  of  the  engraver  lie 
scattered  upon  the  bench  :  the  name  is  given  in 
fac- simile  of  the  autograph. 

21.  Andrews.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

22.  Andrews.     Andrc7vs.     (First  name  obliterated.) 

Pictorial.  The  scene  is  out  of  doors  and  the  sun 
rises  in  full  strength  behind  a  long  oval  frame  on 


Early  Ainericajt  Book-plates.      165 

which  the  name  is  engraved.  A  httle  patch  of 
earth,  two  well-grown  trees,  and  scant  herbage 
complete  the  accessories.     Signed,  Cullender  Sc. 

23.  Andrews.     Eliza  Andrews. 

Pictorial.  Exactly  the  same  as  the  succeeding, 
with  the  exception  of  the  change  in  the  name  and 
the  omission  of  the  engraver's  signature. 

24.  Andrews.     Henry  Andretus. 

Pictorial :  representing  Minerva,  crowned,  with 
spear  and  shield  :  the  owl  sits  upon  a  convenient 
pedestal.  The  name  of  the  owner  is  put  upon  the 
edge  of  the  shield  which  the  goddess  rests  upon 
the  ground.     Signed,  S.  Harris.  Sc. 

25.  Antill.     Edwad.  An  fill.  Esqr.,  A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Probitas  laudatur 
et  alget.  A  New  Jersey  author.  Illustrated  in 
"Art  Amateur,"  April,  1894. 

26.  Apthorp.     Apthorp. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto-ribbon  empty. 

27.  Afphorp.     East  Apthorp,  A.M.      Cambridge  MDCCLXI. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  Motto,  Nemo  nisi 
Christiis.  Eminent  Episcopal  divine,  born  in 
Boston,  1733;  educated  at  Cambridge,  and  died, 
1816. 

28.  Apthorp.    Jno.  Aptliorp. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  lsioi\.o,Eari  quae  sentiat. 
The  same  plate  as  the  one  mentioned  above  as 
having  the  motto-ribbon  empty.  In  this  example 
the  name  y>/C''.  is  written,  and  so  is  the  motto. 

29.  Apthorp.     Thomas  Apthorp. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  l^ioVto,  Juste  rem  para. 
Flowers,  and  a  huge  bee  in  the  decoration.  Printed 
in  blue  ink.     Born,  174 1.     Died  in  England. 

30.  Archdeacon.     S.  Archdeacon. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Esse  quam  videri. 
Signed,  IV.  S.  A  pretty  design,  with  the  caduceus 
of  Mercury  introduced  in  the  ornamentation. 

31.  Archer.      William  Archer. 

Armorial.     Of  Chesterfield  County,  Virginia. 


1 66  American  Book-plates. 

32.  Archer.      William  Archer,  Powhatan. 

A  plain  label  with  the  name  within  a  type  border. 

33.  Armistead.      William  Armistead. 

Armorial.     Ot"  Virginia.     Of  Revolutionary  fame. 

34.  AsHWELL.      Charles  Ashwell  of  Grenada. 

Plain  armorial. 

35.  AssHETON.     Ralph  Assheton,  M.D.,  Philadelphia. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  In  Domino  con- 
fido.  Son  of  the  Councillor ;  studied  medicine  in 
Edinburgh. 

36.  Assheton.     Willm.  Assheton  Esqr.  of  Barhadoes. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Very  ornate.  No  motto. 
Began  the  practice  of  law  in  Penna.,  and  was  after- 
wards described  as  "  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Michael's 
in  Barbadoes,  gentleman."  He  was  Provost- 
Marshal  of  Barbadoes. 

37.  Assheton.      William  Assheton  Esq.  of  Gray's  Inn,  Judge 

of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  of  Pen?i.  iyi8. 
Arms,  crest,  and  quarterings. 

38.  Atkinson.     Theodore  Atkinson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed,  N. 
Hiird.  Sep.  This  is  the  same  design  that  was  used 
in  the  Wentworth  plate,  but  is  much  better  in 
execution.  The  peCuhar  flow  of  water  from  the 
shell  beneath  the  escutcheon  is  caught  in  a  bowl : 
the  only  instance.  Secretary  of  the  colony  of 
New  Hampshire,  174 1  ;  Chief  Justice,  1754  ;  Major- 
General  of  militia,  1 769  ;  delegate  to  Congress  at 
Albany,  1754. 

39.  Atkinson.      William  King  Atkinson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale  :  a  copy  of  the  preceding 
design.  Motto,  Nil  facimus  non  sponte  Dei. 
Signed,  Callender  Sc.  A  noted  lawyer  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.H.  ( 1 764-1820).  Changed  his  name 
from  King  to  Atkinson  out  of  respect  to  Judge 
Atkinson. 

40.  Atlee.      Willm.  Aiigs.  Atlee  Esqr.  of  lancaster  PENN- 

SYIVANIA. 

Armorial.      Chippendale.      Motto-ribbon    empty ; 


Early  American  Book-plates.      167 

bears  some  marks  of  being  unfinished.  Judge  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  i  777-1 791. 

41.  Atwood.     Harry  Atwood. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Very  ornate ;  architec- 
tural and  landscape  effects  used.     No  motto. 

42.  AUCHMUTY.     Richard  Tyhien  Aiicliinnty. 

Plain  armorial.  ]\Iotto,  Dum  spiro  spero.  Signed, 
A^  S. 

43.  Backhouse.      W.  Backhouse,  M.A. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto,  Pax  et  amor. 

44.  Backus.     Elijah  Backus. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto  ;  name  on  motto- 
ribbon.     Very  crude  workmanship. 

45.  Baldwin.     D.  Baldwin,  Otvner. 

An  engraved  label,  the  words  being  within  an  oval 
wreath. 

46.  Baldwin.    Jonathan  Baldwin. 

Armorial.     Signed  by  Callender. 

47.  Baldwin.     Luke  Baldivin. 

Armorial.     Signed  by  Callender. 

48.  Ball.     Flanien  Ball. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Semper 
caveto.     Signed,  P.  R.  Maverick.  Sci. 

49.  Ballord.      Wm.  BallonPs. 

Armorial.     Plain.     No  motto. 

50.  Baltimore.     The  Library  Company  of  Baltimore. 

Simply  the  name  engraved  within  an  oval  frame. 
Signed,  S.  Allardice  Phi. 

51.  Bancker.     Abraham  Bancker. 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  bears  aloft  an  oval  frame  which 
contains  the  large  figure  4  always  seen  on  the  book- 
plates of  this  family.  A  ribbon  flying  from  the 
beak  of  the  eagle  bears  the  motto,  Sublimiora 
petamus ;  beneath,  a  three-masted  vessel,  with 
homing  pennant  streaming,  passes  half-submerged 
trees  and  a  chain  of  mountain  peaks.  Signed, 
Maverick  Sculp\ 


1 68  A7nerica7i  Book-plates. 

52.  Bancker.      Charles  N.  Bancker. 

Armorial  in  style,  but  showing  no  actual  arms. 
The  shield  is  occupied  by  a  large  figure  4,  which  is 
an  old  "merchant  mark."  Chippendale.  Puffy 
cupids  are  seated  on  either  side  of  the  frame  with 
accessories  which  indicate  the  pursuit  of  science. 
Motto,  Dieii  defend  k  droif.  'ivgnQd,  Jones  Sc.  Of 
Philadelphia. 

53.  Bancker.      Cluirles  N.  Bancker. 

A  Chippendale  frame  enclosing  the  figure  4,  and 
showing  the  same  motto  as  the  above.  Helmet, 
wreath  and  crest,  the  eagle's  wings  erect,  ppr. 
Not  signed. 

54.  Bancker.     Evert  Bancker,  Junr. 

A  smaller  and  older  plate  than  the  others  of  this 
name,  and  showing  the  same  figure  4,  with  rather 
wild  mantling,  and  crest. 

55.  Bancker.     Gerard  Bancker. 

Chippendale.  A  cupid  holding  a  globe  converses 
with  a  companion,  perhaps  about  commerce  and 
ocean  currents ;  behind  them  a  pyramid  rises,  and 
two  other  cupids  are  consulting  a  plan.  The 
figure  4  is  again  prominent  in  this  plate.  Signed, 
Dawkins  Sculpsit. 

56.  Bancroft.     George  Bancroft. 

Pictorial.  A  chubby  cherub  approaches,  with  a 
panel  in  his  hands  on  which  the  words  EI2  <I>A02 
are  given.  Another  plate,  identical  in  all  other 
details,  gives  the  motto,  Sursiitn  corda.  Historian 
of  the  United  States. 

57.  Banister.    John  Banister. 

Plain  armorial.  (Arms  of  Banester  of  Easington, 
County  York,  according  to  Burke).  No  motto. 
Of  Virginia.     Revolutionary  soldier.     Died,  1787. 

58.  Barrell.    Joseph  Barrell. 

An  allegorical  plate  full  of  detail.  In  the  centre  is 
the  shield  with  the  arms,  while  above  the  crest  sits 
Hope  with  her  anchor.  As  indicative  of  Industry,  a 
very  trim  female  figure  is  presented,  surrounded  by 


Early  A^nerican  Book-plates.      169 

signs  of  prosperity,  such  as  the  beehive,  palette  and 
brush,  and  square  and  dividers.  In  contrast  to  this 
a  bare-footed,  raggedly  clad  woman  with  a  dead  fish 
in  her  lap,  snails  on  her  shoulders,  broken  tools 
around  her,  and  with  every  appearance  of  misery 
and  squalor,  is  shown  at  the  left.  The  contrast 
between  Thrift  and  Indolence  is  continued  in  a 
second  series  of  pictures  below  the  shield.  In 
these  it  is  the  begging  tramp  and  the  erect, 
well-clothed  gentleman  who  depict  the  moral. 
Dilapidated  shanties  and  well-built  houses  are  also 
in  contrast.  Mottoes,  Not  ahuays  so  —  Indure  but 
hope.  A  rich  Boston  merchant.  A  pioneer  in  the 
Northwest  coast  trade. 

59.  Barroll.      William  Barroll.     Chestertoiun.     ijgs. 

An  engraved  name  label,  with  the  all-seeing  eye 
above  the  oval  frame  which  encloses  the  name. 
The  palm  and  holly  are  crossed  beneath. 

60.  Barton.     William  Barton. 

Armorial.  Perhaps  the  plate  of  the  capturer  of 
Genl.  Prescott  (1777)  in  Narragansett  Bay. 

61.  Bartram.    John  Bartrain. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Foy  en  Dieu. 
A  second  motto,  J'avance.  Celebrated  botanist 
of  Pennsylvania. 

62.  Bathurst.    Armorial.    Of  Virginia.    See  Burke's  "  Extinct 

Baronetage." 

dl.    Bay.      William  Bay.     M.D. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath,  Motto,  Quo  fata 
vacant.  The  heraldic  drawing  is  poor  and  the  charges 
are  reversed.     Born,  i\lbany,  1773.     Died,  1865. 

64.  Bayard.    James  A.  Bayard. 

The  name  well  engraved  within  an  oval  wreath. 
The  Delaware  statesman,  leader  of  the  Federal 
party,  and  one  of  the  negotiators  of  the  Treaty  of 
Ghent.     Born,  1767;  died,  1815. 

65.  Bayard.     Saml.  Bayard. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  This  is  a 
very    interesting   specimen  of  the  debased  Chip- 


lyo  American  Book-plates. 

pendale.  As  decorative  features  the  following  are 
used  :  a  large  globe,  quadrant,  compass,  sun-dial, 
beer-stein,  and  a  little  landscape.  The  branches 
of  the  frame  are  made  to  support  these  objects 
named.     Jurist.     Published  books  on  law. 

66.  Bayley.     Armorial.     Of  the  Eastern  Shore,  Va. 

67.  Beativ.    /.  Beatfy.    M.D. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  shield  rests  against  the 
bole  of  an  oak,  and  while  the  arms  on  it  (Arg.  a 
beehive  surrounded  by  bees)  are  not  given  in  Burke, 
the  crest  appears  in  Fairbairn,  with  some  changes. 
A  globe,  open  book,  scroll,  caduceus,  and  cornucopia 
of  fruit  complete  the  accessories.  Not  a  common 
type  among  American  plates.  John  Beatty  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania,  1749,  and  died  in  New 
Jersey  in  1826.  Rose  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  in 
the  Revolutionary  \\'ar,  and  was  delegate  to  Con- 
gress, 1 783-1 785.  Member  of  Federal  Convention, 
and  member  of  Congress.  Illustrated  in  ''  Curio," 
page  114. 

68.  Beck.     Charles  Beck. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Signed,  N.  D.  Sc. 
(Nathaniel  Dearborn).  Of  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Scholar  and  author. 

69.  Bedlow.      William  Bedloiv. 

Armorial.  Monogram  B  L  2X  foot  of  arms. 
Jacobean.  Motto,  My  hope  oji  high.  Of  Bedlow's 
Island,  New  York. 

70.  Beete.    Joseph  Beete.     Dcmeraiy. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Fortiina  peril,  lioneslas 
man  el. 

71.  Belcher.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Loyal  jusqu'a  la 
Mori.  This  is  the  plate  of  the  Colonial  Governor 
of  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire,  1 730-1 741 
(Jonathan  Belcher).  The  arms  are  the  same  as 
borne  on  the  plate  of  his  son  Jonathan,  except  that 
this  plate  shows  a  label  for  difference.  There  is 
also  a  shortening  of  the  motto  in  the  other  plate. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      171 

72.  Belcher.  Jonathan  Belcher  E  Socictate  Medij  Templi. 
Armorial.  Jacobean.  Very  similar  to  the  last. 
Motto,  Loyal  au  niort.  Son  of  the  preceding ; 
born  in  Boston,  1710.  Graduate  of  Harvard, 
student  at  the  Middle  Temple,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Halifax,  N.S.  Died  there,  1776.  Illus- 
trated in  "  Curio,"  page  113. 


^fi^c^i^^/c/i^--. 


SJivA2rKA.Il. 


73.  Belcher.      William  Belcher,  Owner. 

Literary.  A  shelf  of  books  enclosed  within  an  oval 
which  bears  the  mottoes.  With  welcome  use  —  btit 
use  with  care.  The  wicked  'borrow,  —  but  never 
return.     Of  New  London,  Conn.,  circa  1 790. 

74.  Belcher.      William  Belcher.     Savannah. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  A  very  beautiful  engraving. 
The  shield  rests  upon  the  ground  and  is  supported 
by  the  oak  tree  which  spreads  over  it ;  willows  and 
pines  complete  the  little  group  of  trees,  and  beyond 
a  stretch  of  water  is  seen.  The  motto.  Loyal  au 
tnort,  is  on  the  ribbon  which  flutters  along  the 
ground  beside  the  shield. 


172  American  Book-plates. 

75.  Bel-Chier.    J.  Bel-Chier. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Loyal  jiiscf  a  la 
tnort.     Printed  in  red  ink. 

76.  Beresford.     Richard  Beresford,  Charleston.     17"/ 2. 

Armorial. 

77.  Betts.      William  Belts. 

Armorial.  Plain.  Motto,  Malo  mori  quant  foe- 
dari.     Signed,  C.  P.  Harrison  Del.  Set. 

78.  Beverley.     Harry  Beverley. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     No  motto. 

79.  Beverly.     Robert  Beverly. 

Armorial.     Of  Virginia.     Historian. 

So.    Beverly.      William  Beverly. 

Armorial.     Signed,  y.  Kirk. 

81.  Blackley.     Absalom  Blackley. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  wreath.  Motto,  Utere 
mundo.  Signed,  Maverick  Sep.  The  name  sup- 
ported by  two  quills. 

82.  Blake.      Willm.  P.  6^  L.  Blake's    Circulating  Library   at 

the  Boston  Book  Store. 

An  engraved  label  enclosed  in  an  ornamental  oval 

frame.     Signed,  S.  Hill.     Sc. 

83.  Blanc.      William  Blanc.     Middle  Temple.     Dominica. 

Crest  only.  Motto  on  a  garter  enclosing  the  crest, 
Frajigas  non  flectan. 

84.  Blatchford.     Thomas  W.  Blatchford. 

Plain  armorial,  '^ioiio,  Providentia  sumus.  Signed, 
//;;/.  D.  Smith  sc. 

85.  Bleecker.     Bleecker. 

Plain  armorial.  A  festoon  of  cloth  behind  the 
shield. 

86.  Blenman.    Jonathan  Blenman  Attoray,  Genl.  &=  Judge  of 

ye  Admty.  in  Barbadoes. 

A  small  plate,  without  motto,  rather  poorly  en- 
graved. A  little  ornamentation  of  Jacobean 
manner  appears  at  either  side,  and  the  mantling  is 
rather  profuse,  but  well  above  the  shield. 


Early  Arnericaii  Book-plates.      173 


J2j4^u<f<tcam^  d^iuzcA/y, 


87.   Bloomfield.     Bloomfield. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Rudely  drawn  books 
used  in  the  frame.  Motto,  Pro  aris  et  focis. 
Signed,  J.  Trenchard.  Major  Joseph  Bloomfield 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  Governor  of  New 
Jersey,  Brigadier-General  in  War  of  1812,  member 
of  Congress,  181 7-21.  Illustrated  in  the  "Art 
Amateur,"  April,  1894. 

^Z.    BOLLING.     Robt.  Boiling  Esq'r. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Figures  are  used  as 
supporters  which  would  appear  to  symbolize  the 
freedom  of  the  Garden  of  Eden,  and  the  learning 
of  classic  Greece.  Motto-ribbon  empty  ;  no  crest. 
Of  Chellowe,  Va.    Illustrated  in  "  Curio,"  page  15. 


174  American  Book-plates. 

89.  Bonaparte.    Jerome  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 

A  plain  label,  with  an  ornamental  type  border. 
Nephew  of  Napoleon  the  Great.  Born  in  England, 
1805  ;  died  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  1870. 

90.  Bond.     T.  Bond,  Surgeon. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Signed,  W.  H.  Native 
of  Maryland;  1712-1784.  A  distinguished  physi- 
cian and  surgeon  of  Philadelphia. 

91.  Booth.     Benjn.  Booth. 

Crest  only.  Autograph  in  a  wreath  under  the 
crest.  Of  New  York,  until  the  Revolution  broke 
out. 

92.  Booth.     George  Booth. 

Literary.  A  lighted  candle  and  books  in  con- 
fusion are  placed  upon  a  table.  The  name  is 
carved  upon  the  edge  of  the  table.  On  one  of  the 
book-covers  appears  the  Booth  crest.  An  etched 
plate. 

93.  Boston.     Shakspeare    Circulating  Library,  Charles  Cal- 

lender,  No.  2§  School  Street,  Boston. 
A  very  curious  old  woodcut,  with  a  large  oval 
medallion  of  the  famous  writer  for  whom  the 
library  was  named  placed  in  the  centre  against  a 
rough  rock  background ;  the  masks  of  Comedy 
and  Tragedy  lie  at  the  foot,  and  the  hilts  of  foils 
can  be  made  out ;  a  garland  of  roses  falls  at  the 
right  hand,  and  the  rays  of  the  sun  come  over  the 
top.  This  is  a  rough  engraving,  very  black  and 
indistinct. 

94.  Boston.     Social  Latv  Library.     Boston. 

The  name  appears  on  a  curtain  looped  up  and  held 
by  cord  and  tassel ;  above  this  a  small  oval  encloses 
a  view  of  four  waterspouts,  each  from  behind  a 
rock  ;  above  this  the  circular  frame  encloses  a  hand 
bearing  a  lighted  torch  ;  on  the  frame  is  the  motto, 
Vestra  cura  alitur,  and  the  date  1S04;  a  pile  of 
books  above  for  crest,  with  S.L.L.  on  the  cover 
of  one. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      175 

95.  Boucher.    Jonathan  Boucher. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Non  vi  sed 
voluntate.  A  Loyalist  clergyman  in  Virginia,  whose 
estates  were  confiscated,  after  which  he  returned 
to  England  whence  he  had  come  in  1754. 
Published  a  tract  on  the  causes  and  consequences 
of  the  Revolution,  and  compiled  a  glossary  of 
Provincial  and  Archaeological  Words,  which  was 
purchased  of  his  family  in  1831,  for  the  proprietors 
of  Webster's  Dictionary. 

96.  BouDiNOT.     Boiidinot. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Soli  Deo 
gloria  et  honor.  Elias  Boudinot,  born  in  1740, 
in  Philadelphia,  of  Huguenot  extraction.  Sided 
strongly  with  the  colonies  in  the  Revolution,  and 
was  President  of  Congress  in  1 782.  A  signer  of  the 
Treaty  of  Peace.  Died,  182 1.  This  plate  is  not 
signed,  but  it  is  the  work  of  Maverick.  Illustrated 
in  "Curio,"  page  in. 

97.  BowDOiN.     Honbk.  James  Bowdoin.    Esqr. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Ut  aqiiila  versus  coelum. 
The  same  plate  as  the  Bowdoin  College,  whose 
benefactor  he  was. 

98.  Bowdoin.     Bowdoin  College. 

Plain  armorial.  The  arms  of  the  Hon.  James 
Bowdoin  are  given  with  his  motto,  Ut  aquila  versus 
coelum.  The  sun  in  splendor  shines  above  the 
crest,  and  the  name  of  the  college  is  engraved  over 
it.  This  college  was  chartered  in  1794,  and  then 
presented  with  eleven  hundred  pounds  and  one 
thousand  acres  of  land,  by  Hon.  James  Bowdoin, 
son  of  the  governor  of  the  colony.  By  his  will  a 
further  gift  was  made  to  the  college. 

99.  BoYLSTON.     Boylston  Medical  Library. 

Plain  armorial.  The  arms  of  the  Boylston  family 
are  given  without  ornamentation  or  motto.  Signed, 
Annin  &=  Smith.  Ward  Nicholas  Jloylston,  a  patron 
of  medical  science,  gave  to  the  medical  school  of 
Harvard  College  a  valuable  collection  of  anatomical 
and  medical  books  and  engravings,  in  the  year  1800. 


176  American  Book-plates. 

100.  BoYLSTOX.     Property  of  the    Boylston   Medical  Library 

Cambridge. 

Armorial.     The   arms  of  the  Boylston    lamily  are 

given.     Signed,  Callender  Sc. 

1 01.  BozMAN.    Jolin   Leeds    Bozman.     Esqr  of    the   Middle 

Temple. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Sine 
virtiite  vafii  sunt  honores.  Lawyer,  poet,  and 
historian;  born  in  Maryland  in  1757,  died  in  1823. 
University  of  Penn.,  1783.  Completed  his  studies 
in  London.  His  chief  work  is  the  "  History  of 
Maryland  to  the  Restoration  in  1660."  An  ''His- 
torical and  Philosophical  Sketch  of  the  Prime  Causes 
of  the  Revolutionary  War"  was  suppressed  ;  in  this 
Washington  was  praised  and  Franklin  depreciated. 
This  same  copper  has  been  used  more  recently 
with  the  following  words  added  :  on  either  side  of 
the  crest,  "John  Leeds  Kerr  of  Talbot  Co.  Md. 
15th  Jan.  1780,  2ist  Feb.  1844;"  at  the  bottom, 
under  the  name  of  Bozman,  "The  Maryland  His- 
torian, 25th  Aug.  1757,  20th  April,  1823." 

102.  Brasher.     Philip  Brasher. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Beata 
Domus,  Custodifa  Sic  Ciifa  Deo  Domino  Est. 
The  shield,  with  its  motto-ribbon  and  flowery 
ornamentation,  seems  to  be  held  up  by  the  winged 
female  who  grasps  the  portcullis  of  the  crest. 
Below  the  shield  a  patch  of  ground  is  strewn  with 
books  and  writing  material.  A  dwarfed  weeping 
willow  bends  mournfully  at  the  left.  Signed  on  an 
unrolled  sheet  of  paper,  Alaverick  Sep.  Was  a 
prisoner  in  a  sugar-house  in  New  York  during  the 
Revolutionary  War,  which  suggested  the  crest ;  he 
had  no  right  to  the  arms. 

103.  Brazer.    JoJdi  Brazer. 

Plain  armorial.  Shaded  mantling.  Motto,  Try. 
Of  Salem,  ALiss. 

104.  Brearly.     David  Brcarly. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Honor 
virtutis  pracmiuin.     A   large  plate;  at'Kibuted  to 


Early  American  Book-plates.      177 

Vallance.  Jurist,  of  Trenton,  N.J.  A  brave  officer 
in  the  Revolution. 

105.  Bridgen.     Char/es  Bridgen. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Probitate  et  indusiria. 
This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  it  is  very  probably  the 
work  of  Maverick. 

106.  Brimage.      William  Brimage. 

Plain  armorial.  Impaling  Gilbert.  Arms  closely 
surrounded  by  a  garter  on  which  the  name  appears. 
Motto  below,  Deus  dux  coins.     Of  Virginia. 

107.  Brisbane.      William  Brisbane. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Dabit 
otia  Dens. 

108.  Brooks.     Benjamin  S.  Brooks. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Susiinere. 
Signed,  A.  D.  (Amos  DooHttle). 

109.  Brown.     David  Paul  Brown. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Patria  cara,  carior  libertas. 
Signed,  C.  P.  H.     Si.     Lawyer,  of  Philadelphia. 

no     Brown.     The  Property  of  Jacob  Brown. 

Pictorial.  The  interior  of  a  library  is  depicted, 
within  an  oval  frame  which  is  ornamented  above 
with  a  ribbon  and  a  spray  of  holly ;  the  name  is 
given  on  the  fluttering  ends  of  the  ribbon.  The 
central  portion  of  the  library  is  occupied  by  a 
couch,  covered  with  striped  cloth,  on  which  a 
youth,  dressed  in  the  height  of  the  fashion, 
reclines  ;  a  book  is  laid  upon  the  convenient  corner 
of  the  table,  and  he  is  reading  from  this ;  behind 
him  the  shelves  of  books  are  seen  partly  covered 
by  a  curtain ;  through  the  window  are  seen  the 
nodding  pines  ;  the  carpet  is  adorned  with  thirteen 
stars.  The  following  lines  are  given  below  the 
frame  :  — 

Weigh  7vell  each  thought,  each  sentence  freely  scan, 
In  Reason's  balance  try  the  works  of  mail ; 
Be  bias'd  not  by  those  who  praise  or  blame, 
Nor,  Servile,  Yield  opinion  to  a  Name. 


178  American  Book-plates. 

Signed,  Engfd.  by  P.  R.  Maverick  63  Liberty 
Street.  As  the  XidixnQ  Jacob  Brown  is  not  engraved, 
but  is  printed  by  hand,  it  is  quite  hkely  that  this 
plate  was  for  promiscuous  use  ;  either  to  be  filled  up 
with  the  name  of  any  who  ordered  it,  or  to  be 
pasted  in  the  books  sold  by  some  bookseller. 

111.  Brown.    John  Carter  Brown. 

Crest  only.     Motto,  Gaudeo. 

112.  Brown,     Thomas  Brown. 

Armorial.     Arms, on  a  chevron,  between 

three    leopards'    heads     cabossed,    or    as    many 

escallops Crest,  an  eagle's  head  erased 

or.     Motto,  En  esperance  je  vie.     Signed  by  Hurd. 

113.  Browis^e.     Peter  a.  Broivne. 

Literary.  A  plain  table,  with  the  scull  and  cross- 
bones  carved  in  two  places  upon  it,  supports  several 
large  volumes,  on  the  side  of  one  of  which  is  the 
name  of  the  owner.  On  the  side  of  the  table  the 
motto  is  cut,  Fiatjustitia.  A  wreath  of  laurel  rests 
upon  the  books,  and  the  all-seeing  eye  looks  upon 
the  scene  from  above.  Signed,  Engraved  by  James 
Akin.  A  prominent  lawyer  in  Philadelphia,  and 
the  author  of  "Browne's  Reports." 

114.  Brownson.     Oliver  Brownson''s  Property. 

An  engraved  label  with  the  name  cur\'ed  over  a 
peacock  which  is  perched  on  a  scroll. 

115.  Bruen.     M.  Bruen. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Fides  scutum.  IMatthias 
Bruen  was  a  clergyman  in  New  York  City ;  ordained 
in  London,  18 19. 

116.  Bruff.      Tiie  Property  of  J.  G.  Bruff,  Portsmouth,   Va. 

183-. 

Pictorial.  On  this,  a  weeping  elm  supports  a  large 
shield  on  which  the  inscription  is  given;  so  large  is 
the  shield  that  only  a  little  of  the  tree  shows  around 
the  edge  of  the  shield.     A  woodcut. 

117.  Buchanan.      W.  B.  Buchanan. 

Armorial.     Motto,  Clarior  hinc  honos. 


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118.  Bull.     Martin  Bull. 

Armorial.  A  plain  armorial  plate  with  the  mantling 
extending  down  the  side  of  the  shield.  Motto, 
Virtus  basis  vitae.  This  is  the  plate  of  one  of  the 
engravers  of  the  old  Farmington  book-plate, 
Deacon  Bull.  See  "Ex  Libris  Journal,"  Vol.  Ill, 
page  187. 

119.  Burke.    James  Henry  Burke  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Sola  salus 
servire  Deo.     Of  Virginia. 

120.  Burnet.    John  Burnet.     Attorney  at  Law  Neiv  York. 

Armorial.  Jacobean  frame ;  mantling.  Motto, 
Virescit  vulnere  virtus.  This  plate  is  earlier  than 
the  succeeding  one  by  Dawkins. 

121.  Burnet.    John  Burnet  Esqr  New  York. 

Armorial.  Chippendale,  The  usual  pastoral  scene 
which  Dawkins  used  is  found  here  ;  the  shepherdess, 
and  the  cupids  making  music  on  the  flute,  and 
bringing  books  for  leisure  moments.  Motto, 
Virescit  vulnere  virtus.  Signed,  H.  Daivkins  Sculp. 
I7S4-     Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  13. 

122.  Byam.     Francisci  Byam,  ex  Insula  Antigua. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Claris  dexter  a 
factis.  Rich  mantling  continued  around  the  whole 
shield ;  the  background  shell-lined.  Printed  in 
brown  ink. 

123.  Byrd.     William  Byrd  of  Wcstover  in  Virginia  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  A  very  interesting  specimen 
of  its  class.  The  profuse  mantling  thrown  high  in 
the  air,  the  shell-lined  background,  and  the  curtain 
upheld  at  the  ends  (on  which  the  name  and  address 
are  given)  are  prominent  characteristics  as  pointed 
out  by  Warren.  A  rich  abundance  of  fruit  over- 
flows from  two  cornucopiae,  and  the  motto- ribbon 
is  twined  in  and  out  through  the  scrolls  at  the 
base.  Motto,  Nulla  pallescere  culpa.  Colonel 
Byrd  was  a  very  distinguished  Virginian  :  was  born 
to  an  ample  fortune,  liberally  educated,  and  became 
the  patron  of  science  and  literature  in  his  native 
state.     President   of  the  Council  of  the    colony; 


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author  of  the  "  Westover  jSIanuscripts,"  and  of  other 
essays.  Born,  1674;  died,  1744.  Illustrated  in 
"Curio,"  page  14. 

124.  Cabell.     Doct.r  Geo.  Cabell  Richmond  Virga. 

Allegorical.  In  the  centre  of  the  design  a  flaming 
heart  rests  upon  the  shank  of  an  anchor.  A  thin 
patch  of  ground,  which  grows  a  few  trees,  and  looks 
like  an  island,  upholds  these  emblems  of  hope.  The 
motto  is  just  above,  —  Spes  inea  in  Deo.  Above 
this  again  the  all-seeing  eye,  wreathed  in  clouds, 
appears.  The  whole  is  enclosed  in  a  design  of 
Ribbon  and  Wreath  arrangement.  Evidently  the 
work  of  Brooks,  who  engraved  the  plate  of  Dr.  I. 
Dove  of  the  same  city. 

125.  Cabell.     Samuel  Jo7'dan  Cabell,  of  Soldier's  Joy. 

Pictorial.  The  name  is  printed  from  type  upon  a 
large  ov^al  medallion  ;  this  is  supported  by  the  half- 
draped  figure  of  Liberty  holding  the  pole  with  the 
cap  upon  it,  and  an  officer  in  the  uniform  of  the 
Continental  Army.  The  arms  of  the  United  States 
are  above  the  medallion.  The  pictorial  parts  of 
this  are  cut  in  wood. 

126.  Cabot.      William  Cabot. 

Armorial.  Wild  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Of 
Massachusetts. 

127.  Cadena.     M.  V.  C.     (Mariano  de  la  Cadena.) 

Plain  armorial.  An  ordinary  square  shield  sup- 
ported by  a  very  peculiar  frame.  Motto,  Fidem 
se/raf  vinciilaque  siilvit.  A  Professor  of  Spanish  in 
Columbia  College. 

128.  Cadena.     Don  Mariano  Valazqucz  de  la  Cadena. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  New  York  City. 

129.  Cadena.     Mariano  Valazquez  de  la  Cadena. 

Small,  plain  armorial.     Of  New  York  City. 

130.  Caillaud.    John  Caillaiid.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  The  frame  en- 
closing the  arm  is  oval  in  form  and  quite  peculiar 
in  construction  ;  an  eagle  with  a  chaplet  in  his  beak 
appears  as  a  crest. 


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13: 


Callaway.     Thomas  Callaway. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Aliis  qiiod  ab  aliis. 
Callender.    Jolin  Callcnder. 

Armorial.     Pictorial.     The   shield   rests   against  a 

rock,    mossgrown     and    over-topped    by    shrubs. 

Signed,  Calloider  Sc.     Of  Massachusetts. 
Calvert.     Thos.  Calvert. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto-ribbon  empty. 


134.  Campbell.     Donald  CamphclL    Jamaica. 

Armorial.  The  shield  affixed  to  the  mast  of  a 
lymphad.  (The  crest  of  this  family  of  Campbells.) 
Motto,  Fit  via  vi. 

135.  Carmichaell.     The  Honourable  Wni  Carmichaell  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  The  very  full  mantling 
nearly  surrounds  the  shield.  Motto,  To uj ours 
prest.  Diplomatist.  Born  in  Maryland.  Delegate 
to  Congress,  1 778-1 780.  Foreign  minister. 
Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  16. 


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136.  Carroll,     diaries  Carroll. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  The  last 
surviving  signer  of  the  Declaration.  Died,  1832. 
This  was  the  Charles  Carroll  who  added  "  of 
Carrollton  "  after  his  signature  to  the  Declaration, 
that  no  mistake  might  ever  be  made  in  recognizing 
him.  Illustrated  in  "  Book  Lovers'  Almanac,"  1894. 
Duprat  and  Co.,  New  York. 

137.  Carroll.     Charles  Carroll  Barrister  at  Law. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  The  same  arms 
as  the  Charles  Carroll. 

138.  Carroll.     Charles    Carroll  of  ye  Inner  Tempter  Esqr, 

Second  Son  of  Daniell  Car7-oll  of  Litterloitna  Esqr. 
in  the  Kings  County  in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland. 
Armorial.  Early  English.  Elaborate  mantling  all 
about  the  shield.  Motto-ribbon  empty.  Grand- 
father of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,  the  signer. 
Emigrated  to  Maryland  about  1686. 

139.  Carroll.     Ephm.  Carroll. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  In  fide 
et  in  bello  fortes. 

140.  Cary.     Alpheus  Cary.    Jr. 

Plain  armorial.  The  shield  surrounded  by  an 
oval  frame  of  sun's  rays.  Signed,  A.  Cary  del. 
H.  Morse  Sc.     Of  Massachusetts. 

141.  Cary.     Miles  Cary. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Sine  Deo  careo. 
Of  Virginia. 

142.  Cary.     Thomas  Cary. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  !Motto,  In  medio 
tutissimiis  ibis.  Signed,  Callcnder  Sep.  Of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

143.  Cay.     Gabriel  Cay. 

Crest  only.  Name  enclosed  in  Jacobean  frame. 
No  motto.     Of  Virginia. 

144.  Chalmers.     Geo.  Chalmers. 

Armorial.  ]\Iotto,  Spero.  A  resident  of  Maryland  ; 
a  stiff  Loyalist ;  author  of  "Chalmers'  Annals." 


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145.  Chambers.     Benjamin  Chambers's  Book. 

Armorial.  False  heraldry.  Plain  armorial  plate 
with  supporters,  surrounded  by  a  circular  wreath. 
Motto,  Spiro.     Founder  of  Chambersburg,  Penn. 

146.  Chambers.    John  Chambers  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Arms  not  in  Burke.  Az.  a  chevron  or. 
bet.  three  cockle  shells  of  the  last.  Chippendale. 
Motto,  Vincit  Veritas.  Signed,  E.  Gallaiidet  Sculp. 
Chief  Justice  of  New  York,  1754. 

147.  Chandler.     Gardiner  Chandler. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  P.  Revere  Sculp.     Of  Massachusetts. 

148.  Chandler.    John  Chandler  Junr  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  A  very  handsome  design 
in  the  best  of  Hurd's  styles.  Has  the  characteristic 
flow  of  water  from  the  large  shell  at  the  bottom. 
No  motto.  Signed,  N.  Hurd  Sculp.  Of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

149.  Ch.\ndler.     Rufus  Chandler. 

Armorial.     Attributed  to  Hurd. 

150.  Chase.     SI.  Chase. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ne  cede  malis. 
Signed,  Boyd  Sc.  A  signer  of  the  Declaration 
from  Maryland. 

151.  Chauncey.     Chauncey. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Gloria. 

152.  Ch.^uncey.     Charles  Chauncey. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto-ribbon  empty. 

153.  Chauncey.     Charles  Chauncey  M.D. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Sublimis  per  ardua  tendo. 
Two  fierce  lions  couch  upon  the  ends  of  the  motto- 
ribbon,  and  the  mantling  envelopes  the  shield. 
The  initials  C.  C,  in  cipher,  are  given  between  the 
two  names. 

154.  Chauncey.    J.  Si.  Clair  Chauncey. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Gloria.  An  officer  of  the 
United  States  Navy. 

155.  Chawney.     Armorial.     Of  Pennsylvania. 


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156.  Chester.    John  Chester. 

Plain  armorial.  On  a  ribbon  tied  above,  By  the 
name  of  Chester.  No  motto.  Of  Wethersfield,  Conn. 
Colonel  in  the  Continental  Army ;  commander  of 
the  "  elite  corps  "  ;  was  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 

157.  Child.     Francis  Child. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  lege  et  rege. 
Signed,  H.  Dawkins.     Sculpt.     Very  fine  work. 

158.  Child.     The  Property  0/ Isaac  Child. 

Under  the  name  is  the  verse  beginning  — 
If  thou  art  borj-owed  l>y  a  friend, 
Right  welcome  shall  he  be,  etc. 
Signed,  Sold  by  N.  Dearborn  &>  Son.     Undoubtedly 
engraved  by  Dearborn. 

159.  Child.     Isaac  Child,  Boston. 

Literary.  Four  shelves  of  books.  Probably  by 
Dearborn. 

160.  Child.     Thomas  Child. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pari  aude.  Not 
signed,  but  evidently  the  work  of  Nathaniel  Hurd. 
First  Postmaster  of  Portland,  Me. 

161.  Child.      IVilliam  Henry  Child. 

Armorial  in  form,  but  displaying  no  arms  on  the 
shield.  Crest,  two  doves  with  olive  branches  in 
their  mouths.  The  initials  IV.  H.  C,  in  cipher, 
occupy  the  shield.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No 
motto.  Very  similar  in  design  to  the  plate  of 
George  Grote,  the  historian.  Illustrated  in  "Art 
Amateur,"  April,  1S94. 

162.  Clark.     D.  Lawrence  Clark. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Semper 
idem.  Undoubtedly  the  arms  are  not  genuine  :  the 
argent  field  of  the  shield  is  charged  with  a  branch 
of  holly,  and  the  crest  is  the  American  eagle,  with 
*2i  star  above  its  head. 

163.  Clark.    John  Clark.     M.D. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Semper  idem.  The  arms 
are  undoubtedly  assumed  ;  az.  an  oak  branch  ppr. 
Crest,  an  American  eagle,  with  a  star  (mullet)  above. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      185 

164.  Clarke.     Alfred  Clarke. 

Crest  only.  Motto,  Soyez  ferine.  Of  Coopers- 
town,  N.Y. 

165.  Clarke.     George  Clarke. 

Crest  only.  Motto,  Soyez  ferine.  Signed,  /.  F. 
Morin.     Sc.    N.Y. 

166.  Clarke.     Peter  Clarke. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Coronal  virtus 
cultores  suos.     Printed  in  blue  ink. 

167.  Clarkson.     David  Clarkson  Gent. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Of  New  York. 
Illustrated  in  "  Curio,"  page  66. 

1 68.  Clarkson.     Af.  Clarkson. 

Armorial,  plain.  No  motto.  Matthew  Clarkson 
was  for  twenty-one  years  the  President  of  the  Bank 
of  New  York. 

169.  Cleborne.     C.  I.  Cleborne.     M.D. 

Armorial.  The  shield  canted  to  one  side,  sur- 
mounted by  the  helmet ;  it  and  the  mantling  is 
enclosed  within  a  circular  ribbon,  on  which  the 
motto,  Clibor  ne  seeaine,  is  given.  A  second  rib- 
bon over  the  design  bears  the  motto,  Virti/te  in- 
vidiam vineas.     Signed,  Jarrett  London. 

170.  Cleveland.     Stephen  Cleveland. 

Pictorial.  A  very  unusual  plate  :  a  full-rigged  Brit- 
ish man-of-war,  with  ten  guns  peering  from  the 
loop-holes,  is  hastening  from  the  observer ;  the 
.  English  ensign  flies  from  the  stern.  A  very  spirited 
piece  of  work.  It  is  said  that  his  commission  as 
Captain  in  our  Navy  just  after  the  Declaration  was 
the  first  one  issued.  Born  in  Connecticut,  1740, 
died  in  Massachusetts,  1801. 

171.  Clinton.     De  Witt  Clinton. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Patria 
cara  carior  libcrtas.  Signed,  P.  R.  Mavenck. 
sculpt  Governor  of  New  York,  181 7-1822,  and 
1824-182 7.  Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur,"  Feb- 
ruary, 1894. 


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172.  Cock.     WilUain  Cock. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Quod 
fieri  non  vis  alteri  ne  fueris.  Signed,  Maverick 
Sculpt.  The  tinctures  in  the  crest  —  which  looks 
like  a  leghorn  —  are  mdicated  by  the  words,  gules 
and  or.  engraved  outside,  and  connected  with  the 
parts  thus  tinctured  by  dotted  Hnes,  —  a  new 
method.  Of  New  York.  Illustrated  in  "  Art  Ama- 
teur," March,  1894. 

173.  Coffin.     Coffin   arms:    name  erased.     Armorial.     Rib- 

bon and  Wreath.  IVIotto,  Post  tencbras  sperairms 
lumen  de  luniinc.  Signed,  J.  Akin  Sculp.  The 
name  N.  IV.  Coffin  is  written  upon  the  copy  at 
hand.  The  arms  are  of  the  family  of  Sir  Isaac 
Cotifin,  who  was  born  in  Boston,  1759. 

174.  Coffin.     Hector  Coffin. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Exstant 
rccfe  /actus  pracmia.  Signed,  J.  Akin  del.  F. 
Kearny  Sc.     Of  Boston. 

175.  Coffin.    John  Coffin.     1771. 

Armorial.  A  frame  of  Jacobean  tendencies. 
Motto-ribbon  empty.     Of  Massachusetts. 

176.  Cold  EN.      Cadwallader  D.  Colden. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Fais  Men  crains  rien. 
JNIayor  of  New  York  City  in  18 18.  Friend  and 
coadjutor  of  De  Witt  Clinton. 

177.  Columbia  College.     Columbia  College  Library  A^ew  York. 

Allegorical.  The  scene  is  out-of-doors ;  a  throne 
placed  on  rising  ground  is  occupied  by  the  God- 
dess of  Learning ;  the  Shekinah  blazes  above  and 
the  rising  sun  peeps  over  the  horizon.  Three  little 
nude  beginners  in  learning  stand  before  the  God- 
dess, in  whose  hand  an  open  book  is  extended 
bearing  the  motto,  Aoyta  Zwv^a.  From  her  mouth 
a  scroll  issues  bearing  in  Hebrew  the  motto,  "iX'iiK 
Let  there  be  light.  Beneath  this  scene  is  the  refer- 
ence I  Pet.  II  I.  2  ^c.  The  name  of  the  library 
appears  upon  the  circular  frame  which  encloses  the 
whole  scene ;  the  motto,  ///  lumine  tuo  videbimus 
lumen,  follows  the  inner  line  of  the  circle.     Above, 


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an  urn  is  overfilled  with  the  blossoms  of  knowledge, 
while  the  background  of  the  whole  is  a  brick  wall. 
Signed,  Anderson  sculp. 

178.  Connecticut   Theological    Institute.     Thcol.  Institute 

of  Con.  i8jj.     Presented  by 

Pictorial.  The  representation  is  of  a  pulpit  with 
winding  stairs  on  either  side,  and  a  very  tall  solemn- 
looking  sounding-board  behind  it,  partially  hid  by 
a  curtain.  The  front  panel  of  the  pulpit  has  the 
following,  KHPY250MEN  XPI2T0N  'E2TA- 
YPfiMENON. 

179.  Connecticut  Theological  Institute.   Society  of  Inquiry. 

Theological  Institute  of  Connecticut.  Three  book 
shelves  disclosed  by  a  drawn  curtain. 

180.  Connolly.     Charles  M.  Connollv. 

Armorial.  Moiio,  En  Dieii  est  tout.  Signed,  y.  6^. 
Bolen,  104  B'way. 

181.  Constable.      William  Constable. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Post  tot  Naufragia  portus. 
Of  the  early  New  York  family  that  owned  large 
estates  near  Utica,  N.Y.  This  plate  is  circa  1783 
and  was  engraved  in  New  York.  It  is  interesting  as 
a  specimen  of  twisted  heraldry ;  the  correct  arms 
are  "  Quarterly,  gu.  and  vaire,  over  all  a  bend  or." 
(Flamburgh.  Co.  York,  descended  from  Robert 
De  Lacy,  second  son  of  John  De  Lacy,  Baron  of 
Halton,  and  Constable  of  Chester).  See  Burke. 
In  this  plate  the  arms  are  "  Quarterly  vaire  and 
gu.  over  all  a  bend  sinister  or.,"  which  are  mani- 
festly incorrect.  It  was  not  probably  the  purpose  of 
the  engraver  to  make  this  alteration,  but  not  under- 
standing heraldic  drawing  he  drew  the  arms  correctly 
on  the  copper,  which  reversed  them  in  the  print. 

182.  Cooley.     Abial  a.  Coolefs  Property. 

An  elaborate  plate  of  its  kind,  which  is  unusual ;  it 
is  regular  die-sinker's  work,  and  is  ])rinted  in  red 
ink.  The  word  Property  is  on  a  ribbon  which  is 
arched  over  a  peacock  and  a  dove  ;  scrolls  abound 
in  convenient  places.  The  only  copy  seen  is  in  a 
Boston  imprint,  1742. 


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183.  Cooper.     Myles  Cooper  LL.D.     Coll.  Regis  Nov.  Ebor. 

in  America.  Praefcs,  et  Coll.  Reginae  de  Oxo?i. 
Socius  &~'c. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Second  Presi- 
dent of  King's  College  (now  Columbia).  His  Loy- 
alist inclinations  resulted  in  a  hasty  (light  from  the 
college ;  he  escaped  to  England,  where  he  was  an 
honored  preacher.  Illustrated  in  "  Art  Amateur," 
April,  1894. 

184.  CouRTENAY.     He/irv  Courtenay. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Very  simi- 
lar in  style  to  the  Philip  Dumaresque.  Not  signed, 
but  undoubtedly  by  Hurd.     Of  ISIassachusetts. 

185.  Cox.      Chris.  C.  Cox.     A.M.     M.D. 

A  name-label  with  the  skull  and  crossed  bones 
above  the  name.  The  motto,  Lcctorcm  dclectando 
pariique  moncndo,  is  given  below. 

186.  Cox.     Chris.  C  Cox.     A.M.     M.D.     LL.D. 

Armorial.     Crest  only.     Motto,  Fortitcr  ctfideliter, 

187.  Cranch.     Richd.  Cranch.     Brain  tree. 

An  engraved  label.  The  name  is  within  an  oval 
frame,  formed  of  oak  and  laurel  leaves.  This  plate 
was  engraved  by  William  Bond  of  Falmouth  (now 
Portland),  in  1 786.  Richard  Cranch  was  a  brother- 
in-law  of  John  Adams,  and  lived  in  Quincy,  and 
also  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Braintree. 

188.  Cr-WEN.     Craven. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Veriis  in  actione  consistit.  This 
is  the  plate  of  Lord  William  Craven,  one  of  the 
Lords  Proprietors  of  South  Carolina. 

189.  Crookshank.    Judge  Crookshank. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto,  Lege  et  ratione. 

190.  CuNNlNGHAiM.    James  Cunningham,  Junior. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Printed  in  blue 
ink. 

191.  CuN\'NGHAM.     Robert  Cunyngham,  of  Cayou  in  ye  Lsland 

of  St.  Christopher  in  America,  Esqr. 

An  old  armorial  plate  \   no  further  information  at 

hand. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      189 

192.  CuRWEN.      (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  A  crude  piece 
of  work.     Of  Salem,  Mass. 

193.  Gushing.    Jacob  Cushing,  His  Book.     1746. 

A  plain  printed  label  with  border  of  ornamental  type. 

194.  C  USHMAN.     Citsh  i/i  a  n . 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Habco  pro  jus  fasqiie. 
Signed,  Pitlini  Inc.  The  famous  actress,  Charlotte 
Cushman. 

195.  CuSTis.      Geo.  Washg.  Park  Custis. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  The  last  of 
Washington's  family  —  builderof"  Arlington."  Son 
of  the  following. 

196.  Custis.    John  Park  Custis. 

Armorial.  Presumably  assumed  arms  ;  arg.  an  eagle 
displayed  ppr.  Crest,  an  eagle's  head  erased  ppr. 
Chippendale.  No  motto.  Son  of  Mrs.  Washington 
by  her  first  husband,  Daniel  Parke  Custis.  The 
engraver  omitted  the  e  from  the  middle  name. 

197.  Cutting.    James  S.  Cutting. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Postcro 
ne  credo.     Signed,  Maverick  Set.     Of  New  York. 

198.  Cutting.     Williani  Cutting. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Carpe 
diem :  postero  ne  crede.  Signed,  P.  R.  Maverick 
Set.     Of  New  York. 

199.  CuYLER.    John  Cuylcr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.     Of  New  York. 

200.  Dana.     Edmund  Trotvbridge  Dana. 

The  same  copper  as  the  following  plate,  with  slight 
alterations.  In  the  upper  left-hand  corner  the  date 
A.D.  is6g  is  given.  Presumably  the  date  of  the 
grant  of  arms.  Son  of  R.  H.  Dana.  Translator 
and  editor  of  works  on  International  Law. 

201.  Dana.     Francis  Dana. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Cavendotutus. 
Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.  A  handsome  plate  in  Hurd's 
best  style.  Statesman  and  jurist.  Born,  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  1743;  died  in  Cambridge,  181 1, 


IQO  American  Book-plates. 

202.  Dana.     Richard  Henry  Dana. 

The  same  old  copper  again  retouched.  The  date 
is6g  is  in  new  type,  and  the  name  is  changed  to 
the  present  user.     Poet  and  essayist. 

203.  Danforth.     Dajtforth. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  'b.loiX.o,  U/n  fi/ura  offendar 
maculis  nitent  non  ego  paucis.  Signed,  N.  H.  Sep. 
At  the  upper  left-hand  corner,  outside  the  design, 
the  sun  shines  in  full  strength.  Presumably  the 
plate  of  Dr.  Samuel  Danforth  of  Boston.  Born, 
1740;  died,  1827, 

204.  Dartmouth   College.     Library  of  Dartmouth    College. 

Presented  by  Isaiah  Thomas  Esq  A.D.  i8ig  in  his 
Donation  0/4/0  Volumes. 

These  words  printed  from  type  within  a  border  of 
ornamental  type  disposed  in  an  oval. 

205.  Dartmouth  College.     Social  Friends  Library. 

A  plain  shield  with  thistles  for  decoration  bears  the 
number  of  the  volume.  Motto,  Sol  sapientiae 
ninuji/am  occidet.     The  full  sun  above  the  shield. 

206.  Davenport.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

207.  Davidson.     Henry  Davidson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  ^^^reath.  Motto,  Sapientcr 
si  sincere.  A  very  neat  plate.  The  wreath  has  not 
the  proper  twisted  effect,  but  appears  more  like  a 
row  of  eggs  than  an  heraldic  wreath. 

208.  Davis.     Davis. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Auspice  Christo. 

209.  Day.    John  Day. 

Plain  armorial.  Signed,  J.  S mi  then.  Sculp.  Of 
Philadelphia. 

210.  Day.     M.  if.  Day. 

Pictorial.  A  collection  of  literary  property  is 
grouped  in  an  open  space  where  the  rising  sun 
shines  strongly ;  the  name  is  given  upon  a  ribbon 
which  floats  above ;  from  it  depends  a  lamp ;  to 
the  right,  a  book-case ;  to  the  left,  a  bust  of 
Franklin,  a  large  globe,  books,  ink-pot  and  quills; 


Early  American  Book-plates.      191 

in  front,  an  unrolled  parchment  which  purports  to 
be  a  list  of  books.     The  following  motto  :  — 
'7}>  education  forms  the  co7nmon  mind, 
Just  as  the  tivig  is  bent,  the  tree's  inclined. 
Signed,  JV.  Chapin  del  6^  Sc. 

211.  Deane.    John  Dcane. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto.  Name 
on  motto-ribbon. 

212.  De  Blois.     Lew's.  Dc  Bhns. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Signed,  Na- 
thaniel Hurd  Sculp.  The  mantling  is  well  conceived 
but  rudely  engraved  ;  the  shell-lined  background  is 
here,  and  the  curtain  upheld  at  the  corners,  on 
which  the  name  is  given.  The  whole  appearance 
of  the  plate  shows  it  to  be  quite  early,  and  among 
the  first  attempts  of  Hurd. 

213.  De  Blois.     N.J.  De  Blois. 

Armorial.  Jacobean,  with  handsome  mantling. 
Motto,  Je  me  fie  en  Dicu.  "  These  arms  are 
assumed  by  some  members  of  the  family  of  this 
name  living  in  Newport,  R.I.  The  first  of  the 
name  in  America  was  born  in  Fort  George,  N.Y., 
some  time  before  the  Revolution  ;  his  descendants 
in  New  York  and  Newport  carried  on  a  great  hard- 
ware business  with  their  parents  in  England,  but 
when  the  troubles  occurred  they  became  Tories 
and  left  the  country.  Some  of  the  wax  seals  on 
their  old  letters  bear  the  impression  of  a  Moor's 
head,  which  may  have  been  correct.  Others  had 
either  the  conceit  or  ignorance  to  assume  the 
armorial  bearings  of  the  famous  and  noble  family 
of  Chatillon  of  France,  which  historical  race  became 
extinct  in  1762.  As,  during  the  14th  century  some 
members  of  the  Chatillons  were  Comtes  de  Blois, 
this  title,  extinct  in  1364,  over  500  years  ago,  is 
most  unwarrantably  used  as  if  it  were  the  family 
name,  and  the  Chatillon  arms  adopted  in  a  most 
extraordinary  way,  reversing  the  ordinary  way  of 
acquiring  arms  ;  so  audacious  and  arrogant  is  the 
assumption  and  so  sublime  the  impudence  it  en- 


192  American  Book-plates. 

titles  the  fact  to  a  high  place  in  the  Curiosities  of 
Heraldry."  (These  notes  are  found  accompanying 
the  copy  of  the  plate  in  the  collection  of  the  late 
Mr.  James  Eddy  INIauran.)  This  plate  is  apparently 
copied  from  the  one  by  Hurd,  and  as  that  is  much 
earlier,  it  may  be  that  the  assumption  of  the  arms 
was  due  to  him  instead  of  to  the  later  users,  who 
simply  copied  what  appeared  to  be  the  legitimate 
plate  and  arms  of  an  ancestor. 

214.  Dedham.     Library   of  the   "  Yoinig  Aleii's   and    Young 

Ladies'  Societies  for  the  Study  of  the  Sacred 
Scriptures.'"  Dedham,  {Afs). 
The  above  inscription  is  printed  from  type  within 
an  oval  frame  which  is  cut  on  wood ;  elongated 
cornucopiae  extend  their  blossoms  above  and  around 
the  central  panel ;  above  in  a  small  frame  a  lute 
and  some  music  books. 

215.  DENjn'.      William  Dcuuy. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Et  mea  viessis  erit.  Governor 
of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 

216.  De  Pevster.     Frederick  De  Peyster. 

Armorial.  A  plain,  heart-shaped  shield  supported 
by  two  eagles  on  palm  branches,  which  are  crossed 
under  the  shield  and  extend  upwards  on  either  side. 
No  motto.  Signed,  P.  R.  Maverick  Set.  Of  New 
York.  Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur,"  Febniary, 
1894. 

217.  Derpa'.      Martha  Derby. 

The  name  printed  within  a  border  of  flowers  and 
sprays.     A  group  of  musical  instruments  above. 

218.  Bering.     Nicoli  H.  Dej-ing. 

Armorial.  No  motto.  The  Thomas  Bering  plate 
by  Hurd,  with  the  name  altered. 

219.  Bering.     Thomas  Dering. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed,  N. 
Hurd  Sculp  i'/4g.  This  is  the  earliest  plate  by  an 
American  engraver  which  is  both  signed  and  dated. 
But  one  copy  is  known  at  this  writing.  Illustrated 
in  "Curio,"  page  14. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      193 

220.  Dering.      Thomas  Deriiig. 

Crest  only,  enclosed  within  a  circular  ring.  The 
half-date  ly  .  is  given.  Resembles  the  work  of 
Hurd  somewhat. 

221.  De  Witt.     Richard  Varick  De  Witt. 

A  small  pictorial  plate,  representing  Minerva  stand- 
ing helmeted  and  with  spear  and  shield  in  hand. 
On  some  copies  of  this  plate  the  following  additional 
inscription  is  found  engraved,  From  his  uncle 
Richard  Varick. 

222.  Dexter.     Samuel  Dexter' s.     MDCCLXXXV. 

A  printed  label,  with  a  border  of  ornamental  type. 
Eminent  lawyer  and  statesman.  Secretary  of  VVar 
1800,  and  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  1801. 

223.  Dill.    John  E.  Dill.     Boston. 

A  name-label  in  which  the  name  is  printed  within  a 
border  made  up  of  ornamental  type,  although  it 
does  not  look  so  at  first  glance.  The  back  of  the 
design  resembles  a  l)rick  wall ;  the  frame  is  made  up 
of  bouquets  in  holders,  hearts,  and  an  assortment 
of  odds  and  ends. 

224.  DiNvviDDiE.     Rob't.  Dinwiddle. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ubi  libertas  ihi 
patria.  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Virginia,  1 75  i-i  758. 
See  "  Ex  Libris  Journal,"  Vol.  II,  pages  89,  125. 

225.  DoLBEARE.     Benjamin  Dolbea7-e  of  Boston  in  Ne7u  Eng- 

land. Oxford.  Printed  at  the  Clarendon  Printing 
House.     October,  6.     IJJQ- 

A  very  large  printed  label,  with  three  rows  of 
ornamental  type  border,  between  which  the  follow- 
ing is  printed,  "  The  Noble  Art  and  Mystery  of 
PRINTING  was  first  Invented  by  JOHN  GUT- 
TENBERG  of  Mentz,  a  City  of  Germany  in 
the  YEAR  1440  and  brought  into  ENGLAND  by 
JOHN  ISLIP  oi  London  in  the  year  of  our  LORD 
1471."  This  is  very  like  the  plate  of  Martha 
Bartlett,  illustrated  in  "  The  Book-plate  Collectors' 
Miscellany,"  page  20.  See  note  from  Mr.  Tuer 
in  same,  page  29.  There  was  an  Edward  Dolbier 
in  the  Boston  Tea-party,  i6th  December,  1773. 


194  American  Book-plates. 

226.  Dove.     Doct.  I.  Dove.     Richmond.      Virga. 

Armorial.  Crest  only.  A  dove  ppr.  holding  an 
olive  branch  in  her  bill.  Motto,  Dens  providebit. 
The  design  is  completed  by  a  festoon  and  crossed 
branches  in  Ribbon  and  Wreath  style.  Signed, 
Brooks  Sculp.  The  Doct.  Cabell  plate  was  evi- 
dently the  work  of  this  same  engraver. 

227.  Dove.     Samuel  E.  Dove.     Richmond.      Va. 

Pictorial.  The  dove  with  the  olive  branch  in  her 
bill  flies  past  mountains  with  water  at  their  foot. 
Motto,  Ab  initio  Deus  providebit,  on  a  circular 
garter  enclosing  the  picture. 

228.  Drayton.     Drayton,  South  Carolina. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  ^Vreath.  Motto,  Non  nobis 
solum. 

229.  Drayton.    Jacob  Drayton,  South  Carolina. 

The  same  copper  as  the  above  with  the  first  name 
added. 

230.  Drayton.      Wm.  Drayton,  Middle  Temple. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  INIotto,  Non  nobis  solum. 
A  smaller  plate  than  the  preceding,  with  the  same 
arms.  The  name  and  address  are  given  in  a 
bracket  bordered  with  scrolls  and  foliations.  A 
jurist  of  South  Carolina  and  Florida. 

231.  Dr.\yton.      William  Henry  Drayton. 

Armorial.  Statesman.  Born  at  Drayton  Hall-on- 
the-Ashley,  near  Charleston,  S.C.,  1742;  died, 
1779. 

232.  DuANE.    James  Duane.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Nulli  praeda. 
Signed,  H.  D.fect.  The  usual  pictorial  elements 
of  Davvkins'  style  are  here  introduced.  The  prim 
shepherdess  and  attendant  swain  on  one  side  of  the 
shield,  and  a  lonely  young  girl  singing  to  herself  by 
a  fountain,  to  the  music  of  her  guitar ;  her  home 
cannot  be  far  away  as  she  wears  no  hat  and  is  in 
decollete  attire.  Of  New  York.  Statesman. 
Member  of  the  Old  Congress.  Illustrated  in  "  Art 
Amateur,"  March,  1S94. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      195 

233.  Dudley.    Joseph  Dudley  i7S4- 

Armorial.  Early  English.  The  mantling  is  very 
full,  curling  upwards  as  well  as  downward  and  com- 
pletely envelopes  the  shield.  It  is  the  common 
type  of  denticulated  mantling,  but  not  so  elegant 
as  some  examples.  Motto,  A'cc  g/adio  nee  arcii. 
The  name  appears  on  the  usual  scroll  beneath  the 
shield.  Of  the  family  of  the  Governor  of  the  colony 
of  Massachusetts.  This  date,  1^34,  was  added  by 
Hurd,  and  is  much  later  than  the  actual  date  of  the 
plate. 

234.  DuER.     E  Libris  Gul.  Alex.  Diier. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Esse  et  videri.  Of  New 
York.  Brother-in-law  of  Beverly  Robinson. 
President  of  Columbia  College  from  1829  to  1842. 
Son  of  following. 

235.  DuER.      Williii.  Diier.     Esq. 

Armorial  in  form.  Crest  only.  Ribbon  and 
Wreath.  Motto,  Esse  qiiam  videri.  Attributed 
to  Maverick :  the  frame  strongly  resembles  the 
Maturin  Livingston.  The  name  is  on  the  shield. 
Born,  1747.     Delegate  to  Continental  Congress. 

236.  DuMARESQUE.     Philip  Dumaresqiie. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed,  N. 
Hitrd.  Sei/lp.  One  of  the  first  officers  of  old 
Trinity  Church  in  Boston. 

237.  DuMMER.    Jer.  DuiiDiier  Aiiglus  Aiucricautis. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  No  motto.  In  the 
diary  of  John  Hull,  the  coiner  of  the  early  specie 
of  Massachusetts,  the  following  entry  is  found : 
*'  1659.  ist  of  5th.  I  received  into  my  house 
Jeremie  Dummer  and  Samuel  Paddy,  to  serve  me 
as  apprentices  eight  years."  In  the  "Heraldic 
Journal  "  we  learn  that  Jeremiah  Dummer  was  a 
goldsmith.  Married  in  1672  Plannah  Atwater. 
He  was  the  father  of  Governor  William  Dummer, 
and  of  Jeremiah  Dummer  the  younger,  the  probable 
owner  of  this  plate,  who  was  Massachusetts  agent 
in  England,  1710-1721. 


196  American  Book-plates. 

238.  Duncan.    James  H.  Duncan. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Disce 
pati.     Very  crude  work. 

239.  DuNKiN.     Robert  Henry  Diinkin. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Disce  pati.  Signed,  /.  H. 
(Hutt.)     Of  Philadelphia. 

240.  Dunning.      Chai-les  E.  Dunning. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Semper  paratus. 
Foliage,  roses  and  a  griffin  in  the  ornamentation. 

241.  Dunning.      Charles  S.  Dunning. 

Armorial.  Impaling  Wijnkoop.  Chippendale. 
(Late.)  Motto,  Semper  paratus.  More  elaborate 
design  than  the  above. 

242.  DuRAND.    John  Durand.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Very  fine.  Presumably 
by  the  brother  of  Asher  B.  Durand,  who  was  a  fine 
engraver.  A  medallion  beneath  the  shield  shows 
cupids  in  a  corn-field. 

243.  DuvALL.     E  Bibliotlicca  Gahrielis  Duvall.     A.D.     1778. 

The  name  printed  from  type  within  a  woodcut 
border,  in  which  thirteen  stars  form  a  patriotic 
allusion.  Signed,  T.  S.  (Sparrow.)  Of  Hugue- 
not descent.  Born  in  Maryland,  1752.  Jurist  and 
Federal  officer. 

244.  Dyckman.     Dyckman. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  The  crossed 
branches  are  under  the  shield,  and  its  edge  is 
embellished  with  close  festooning.  /.  G.  written 
before  the  name.  y{.o\.\.o,Zythcstiudig.  Illustrated 
in  "  Art  Amateur,"  April,  1S94. 

245.  Dyckman.     States  Morris  Dyckman. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Zyt  bes- 
tendig. 

246.  East    Windsor.      Miscellaneous     Literary    Association, 

East  Windsor. 

Allegorical.     Minerva  in  repose.     A  Greek   mask 

near  by. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      197 


GrccKZiish  Park, 


■■JZJi.      Br-.jn    EJzL'Jrds  Esar. 

Armonal.  Cnippencale.  \erT  ornate.  Motto, 
Nosce  t?  iprunj.  Sigiied,  Ashhy  Sculp,  Russel 
C       '    '  Historian,  and  wealthv  merchant 


248.  Ez^vA?^  -       -  -zJu-ards. 

K:^-::^,:.-^.  ISlotxo^TfU Xj ;;.  s,s.:: :l;  World. 
Lawyer  and  author  of  New  York-     Bom  in  1 797. 

249.  Ez "ART'S.     Isjac  Edwards.     Xoi^  Carolina. 

ArrcorlaL 

jfo.    Ez.4J'i.     Samuel Elam.    Rhode  Island. 

ArmoriaL  PictoriaL     A   rit  of  landscape  is  intro- 


s  n"om   a   ring  around 

A  very  pretty  design 

-T  one  somewhat  of  the 


duced,  and  the  shie"  I  '. 
the  bole  of  a  shatter^  i 
and  well  engraved,  rtv 
book-plates  by  Bewick. 

EzJOT.     Uiniam  H.  EI:rf. 

ArmoriaL  CrcE:  :  -rithin  an  oral  garter  on 
which  is  given  t'r  .;._■.::.  Xcn  nobis  solum. 

EllZPvY.     Benjamin  EUery. 

Armori^  Chirp er.^i'r.  No  rr-Dtto.  Of  New 
York-  TTie  samt  :  :-  i  i'j:::i(i  bearing  the  name 
Harrison  EUery. 

Eii:;cT.     Barnard  EH:  off. 

Plain  armoriaL  Colonel  in  the  Rev :  -  :  -  Simed, 
P:  R.  Maveritk. 

E-'T=Tov.      Roheri    Ellis  ton     Genf.    Ccmvtrolr.    cf  Jus 
'  New  York  : 

-^n.      A  very  ,=■_    pi^te 


---  -7T^.    cHiiaVca      '.-- 

:.     Tne 

i."..    -    IS   Sft   a~!n" 

-  J    -_  J 

shell,  and  two  t  .                    _ 

T       '  er 

arms.     Tr-    ~ 

-;    ^.ven 

upon  an:                         --   m  .t. 

?-r. .  tnere  is  no 

cuTtam  or  -  :       -.  >  .-.-..e  :  c  : 

:-:r     -i-    -hich 

in  engraved  plainlv  in  three  l'--- 

_z-t^-;.. 

198  American  Book-plates. 

255.  Elliston.       Robert    Ellis  ton     Gent.    Comptrolr.    of   his 

Majestie's  Customs  of  Neia  York  in  Amej-ica. 
This  is  very  similar  to  the  preceding,  but  is  a 
trifle  larger,  and  in  some  respects  superior.  As 
before,  the  shield  is  placed  within  the  enfolding 
arms  of  a  Jacobean  frame,  but  the  diapered  pat- 
tern is  succeeded  by  an  all-over  shell  pattern,  and 
a  grinning  canephoros  head  supports  the  shield. 
On  a  ribbon  above  the  crest  the  date  is  given, 
AI.DCC.XXV.  The  motto.  Bono  vince  malum, 
as  before,  is  on  its  ribbon  under  the  frame.  Again 
the  usual  curtain  is  omitted  and  the  inscription 
is  engraved  in  three  lines  below  all,  with  a  little 
more  attention  to  grammatical  marks,  and  in 
bolder  type.  The  eagles  have  disappeared.  The 
copy  before  me  has  the  following  in  handwriting  :  — 
Bis  gift  to  the  library  of  St.  Georges'  Ch :  in  .  .  . 
Queens  Count}'  province  of  New  York.  1730. 
Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  65. 

256.  Emerson.      Uilliam  Emerson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  The  work  looks 
very  much  like  Callender's.  ]\Iotto,  Fidem  servabo. 
Father  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

257.  Er.\smus  Hall.     Ei-asmus  Hall  Library. 

Allegorical.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt  New  York. 
The  plate  is  divided  into  two  sections  :  the  upper 
one  is  enclosed  within  a  circular  frame,  and  con- 
tains the  allegorical  picture.  Diana  is  seen  in 
the  foreground  directing  the  attention  of  a  youth 
to  the  glories  revealed  upon  the  heights  above 
them.  Two  temples  are  seen  which  bear  dedi- 
cations to  Fame  and  to  Virtue.  Surrounded  by 
clouds  the  angel  of  Fame  is  even  now  appearing 
above  her  sacred  fane.  The  implements  of  study 
are  at  the  foot  of  the  youth,  and  under  this  scene 
are  the  words,  FORTITER !  ASCENDE.  The 
lower  part  of  the  design  is  simply  a  wreath  enclos- 
ing the  name.  The  Erasmus  Hall  Library  belonged 
to  an  Academy  which  was  founded  at  Flatbush, 
L.I.,  in  1786. 


Early  Americmi  Book-plates.      199 

258.  Erving.      WilUain  Erving.     Esqr. 

Plain  armorial.  Mottoes,  Quo  fata  vacant,  and 
Flourish  in  all  weathers.  Signed,  Callcnder  Set. 
Undoubtedly  of  the  Boston  family  of  Loyalists. 

259.  Erving.      (Anonymous.) 

Plain  armorial.  Quartering,  "  Ar.  an  eagle  displayed 
sa.  within  a  border  invected  of  the  last."  The  first 
and  third  quarters  are  the  Irvine  arms. 


260.   Eustace.      Colonel  John   Skey  Eustace,  State  of  New 
York. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath,  Motto,  In  hoc 
signo  vinces.  The  arms  are  not  correct,  as  one 
cross-crosslet  is  missing,  and  it  is  not  certain  that 
the  crest  which  hangs  in  unusual  style  on  a  plate, 
from  the  festoon,  belongs  to  this  family.  The 
crest  is  balanced  by  a  plate  on  the  other  side  of 
the  shield,  on  which  a  letter  E  is  engraved.  The 
whole  is  contained  within  an  elongated  wreath. 
The  name  appears  above  the  shield  following  the 
curve  of  the  wreath,  and  at  the  bottom  two  ad- 
ditional  lines  in   Latin   serve   as   another   motto, 


200  American  Book-plates. 

Jgnotis  e7-rare  iocis,  ignota  videre,  Flumina  gaudebat: 
studio  mimientc  laborem.  A  variant  of  the  above, 
—  the  same  copper  altered,  —  gives  this  motto  in 
place  of  In  hoc  signo  viiices,  —  Sajis  Dieu  rien. 
A  Revolutionary  officer  whose  bravery  was  recog- 
nized by  Congress. 

261.  EVARTS.    Jeremiah  Evarts. 

A  simple  name-label  with  the  motto  under  the 
name  and  a  festoon  of  cloth  above  it.  Motto,  Nil 
sine  magno  vita  labor:  dedit  niortalibus.  Father  of 
the  Senator. 

262.  EvERDELL.      William  Everdcll. 

Armorial  in  form,  though  no  real  arms  are  shown. 
Motto,  Semper paratus.  The  four  quarters  of  the 
shield  are  occupied  with  implements  of  the  draughts- 
man's art.     Of  New  York. 

263.  Everett.     Edtuard  Everett. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Patria  Veritas  fides.  Scholar 
and  orator.     Born,  1780;  died,  1S51. 

264.  EwiNG.     Ewing.    (John.) 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  A  very  porky  lamb,  books, 
two  cooing  doves,  and  a  quadrant  are  introduced 
into  the  framework.  Motto,  Audacter.  A  Phila- 
delphia clergyman. 

265.  Fairfax.     Bryan  Fairfax. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Fare  fac.  Eighth  and  last  baron  ; 
friend  of  Washington. 

266.  Farmington.     Library  in  the  First  Society  in  Farmington. 

A  large  engraved  label. 

267.  Farmington.     This  Book  belongs  to  Monthly  Library  in 

Farmington. 

Allegorical.  Signed,  J/.  BitWs  6^  T.  Lee's  Sculp. 
A  large  plate  in  which  the  Laws  and  the  names  with 
the  attendant  flourishes  take  a  good  deal  of  the 
space.  In  the  centre  a  shelf  of  books  separates  two 
groups  of  figures.  At  the  right  a  very  stiff  youth, 
in  the  court  costume  of  the  period,  with  wig,  ruifles, 
and  buckled  shoes,  is  seen  under  the  guidance  of 
a  portly  female  figure  who  impersonates  Wisdom. 


202  American  Book-plates. 

She  appears  to  be  warning  the  youth  of  the  dangers 
of  pursuing  the  two  sirens  who  beam  at  him  across 
the  shelf;  or  else  they  are  meant  to  represent  the 
sources  of  Knowledge,  and  the  youth  is  being  con- 
ducted to  them.  As  Deacon  Bull  was  not  a  great 
engraver  we  may  be  pardoned  if  we  do  not  clearly 
understand  his  allegory.  However,  the  LAWS  of 
the  Library  are  very  plain,  and  are  neatly  engraved 
under  the  row  of  books  mentioned. 

1.  Two  pence  pr  day  for  retaining  A  Book  more  thaii 

a  Month. 

2.  One  penny  for  folding  dotvn  a  Leaf. 

3.  3 1  for  lending  a  book  to  a  Nonpropiietor. 

4.  Other  Damages  appraised  by  a  Committee. 

J.  No  person  allowed  a  Book  luhile  indebted  for  a 
Fine. 

Below  these  stringent  rules  the  following  verse  is 
given  :  — 

The  Youth,7vho,  led  by  WISDOM'S  guiding  Hand, 
Seeks  VIRTUE'S  Temple,  and  her  laics  Reveres  : 
He,  he  alone,  in  HONOUR'S  Dome  shall  Stand, 
Crown' d  with  Rcivards,  ^  rais'd  above  his  Peers. 

The  design  is  very  ambitious,  but  is  rather  poor  in 
execution. 

26S.    Farmington.      Village  Library. 

Library  Interior.  A  young  lady,  very  prim,  and 
exceptionally  neat  and  austere  in  her  virtuous 
demeanor,  sits  upright  in  a  chair  beside  a  table,  on 
which  a  few  books  are  laid,  and  an  ink-pot  with  the 
quill  in  it.  An  open  case  of  books  on  the  wall,  a 
closed  writing-desk  under  it,  and  a  print  of  Wash- 
ington complete  the  furniture  of  the  room.  Out  of 
the  window  can  be  seen  the  inspiring  sight  of  a 
steep  hill,  upon  the  summit  of  which  the  pillared 
Temple  of  Honor  stands. 
The  following  verse  is  given  :  — 

Beauties  in  vain  their  pretty  eyes  max  roll: 
Charms  strike  the  sense,  but  merit  wins  the  soul. 
Also  of  Farmington,  Conn. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     203 

269.    Fauquier.     Francis  Fauquie}-.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Lieutenant- 
Governor  of  Virginia  from  1758  to  his  death  in 
1768.  Regarded  by  Jefferson  as  the  ablest  execu- 
tive of  Virginia.  Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur," 
May,  1894. 

2  70.    Fendall.     Philip  Richard  Fendall. 

Armorial.  Arms  very  doubtful.  Ribbon  and 
Wreath.     Motto,  Esse  qiiam  videri. 

271.  Fenwick.     Fcnwick. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Perit  ut  vivat. 
Signed,  J.  Smither.  Sc.  A  plate  showing  fertility 
of  design  in  the  engraver,  but  not  much  skill  with 
the  burin. 

272.  Fish.     Hamilton  Fish.     Stiiyvesant  Square  Neiu  York. 

Plain  armorial.  Mantling.  Motto,  Deiis  dabit. 
Governor  of  New  York  State,  1 849-1 851. 

273.  Fisher.    Joshi/a  Fisher. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto,  name 
on  motto-ribbon.  Native  of  Delaware.  A  leading 
merchant  of  Philadelphia  during  the  Revolution. 

274.  FiTZHUGH.      (Anonymous.) 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pro  patria  semper.  Of 
Virginia. 

275.  FiTZHUGH.      JVi/im.  Fifzhi/gh  Junr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  patria  sem- 
per.    Of  Virginia, 

276.  Foot.     Fbenezer  Foot. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Signed,  Maverick. 
Set.     Of  New  York. 

277.  FooTE.     Fbenezer  Foote.     Plain  armorial.     No  motto. 

278.  FooTE.     Foote. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto.  The  WAxat  John  P.  is 
written  in  before  the  family  name  on  the  copy  at 
hand. 

279.  Forbes.     Eli  Forbes. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Omni  fortunae 
paratus.  Signed,  T.  M.  Furnass,  St.  This  is  the 
only  specimen  so   far  discovered  of  the   work  of 


204  American  Book-plates. 

this  engraver,  who  was  a  nephew  and  pupil  of  Hurd. 
The  owner  was  Chaphn  in  the  army  of  the  Revolu- 
tion and  a  missionary  to  the  Indians.      (1800.) 

280.  FoRMAN.     Forman. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Deo  et  aviiciiiae. 
An  officer  of  the  Revolutionary  army.  Had  an 
estate  named  "  Rose  Hill,"  in  Maryland. 

281.  Foster. 

A  plate  of  this  family  name  is  owned  in  Boston,  but 
no  information  concerning  it  can  be  obtained.     It 
is  said  to  be  the  work  of  Furnass. 
2S2.    Foster.     Isaac  Foster. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  INIotto,  Millc  mali  saluiis 
habeo,  species  mille.     Signed,  N.  Hurd.     Sept. 

283.  Fowler.     C.Fotuler. 

Armorial,  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto.  Name 
on  motto-ribbon,  A  small  plate.    Of  Rhode  Island. 

284.  FowNES.      From    the   Library   of   the  late  Rev.  Joseph 

Fownes,  of  Shrewsbury,  ijgo. 
A  printed  label. 

285.  FoxcROFT.    John  Foxcroft. 

Armorial.     Of  Boston. 

286.  Francis.    John  Francis. 

Plain  armorial.     IMotto,  Manet  amicitia  florebit  que 
semper.     Signed,  CaUcnder  Sculp. 
28  7.    Franklin.    John  Franklin  Bos  tori  New  E7igla?id. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Exeniplum  adest  ipse 
homo.  Signed,  J.  Turner  Sculp.  The  shield  rests 
upon  a  very  elaborately  ornamented  frame,  the 
background  of  which  is  covered  with  a  diaper 
pattern.  As  supporters,  Artemis,  the  goddess  of 
the  moon,  with  spear  and  arrow  in  hands  appears 
upon  the  left  hand,  and  Apollo,  likewise  with  spear, 
attends  upon  the  right.  Both  are  represented  with 
the  lower  part  of  the  figure  diminishing  into  a  vase, 
in  the  manner  of  the  Termini.  They  stand  upon 
an  ornamental  bracket  which  encloses  a  sketch  of 
Diana  sounding  the  hunter's  horn,  while  an  attend- 
ant unleashes  the  hound.     The  points  upon  which 


Early  American  Book-plates.      205 

the  figures  of  Artemis  and  Apollo  rest  are  sup- 
ported by  female  busts  in  profile.  The  whole 
design  is  very  ornate,  and  the  plate  is  perhaps  the 
rarest  of  our  early  Americans.  John  Franklin  was 
the  brother  of  Benjamin  of  greater  fame. 


Fr.\nklin  Institute.  Library  of  the  Franklin  Institute. 
Portrait  plate.  Avery  fine  portrait  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin enclosed  in  a  typical  picture-frame  of  the  day. 

Fraunces.     Andrew  G.  Fraunces. 

Armorial.  Mantle  of  estate.  Motto,  Procurator 
industria.  Signed,  in  the  flourishes  under  the  own- 
er's name,  Maverick  ScJ>.  An  unusual  style  for 
Maverick. 


2o6  American  Book-plates. 

290.  Freeman.     Nathaniel  Freeman. 

Armorial  in  form,  but  no  arms  displayed.  The 
shield  hangs  upon  a  dwarfed  tree,  and  has  the 
initials  N.  F.  in  cipher  upon  it.  A  long  ribbon 
trails  on  the  ground  and  over  the  shield  and  tree, 
bearing  the  motto,  n*;"1  VwSI  mm  ilXm. 

291.  French.    Jonathan  Fretich. 

Armorial.  Late  Chippendale.  INIotto-ribbon  empty. 
Of  Massachusetts. 

292.  Gallatin.     GaHatin. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Persevere.  This  is  the 
plate  of  Albert  Gallatin  (i  761-1849),  the  states- 
man. He  is  said  to  have  adopted  this  motto  in 
place  of  the  family  motto. 

293.  GALL.A.UDET.       Galhiudct. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Ut  qiiiescas  labora.  Not 
signed,  but  engraved  by  Edward  Gallaudet. 

294.  Gardiner.     By  the  name  of  Gai'dmer. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto,  the  name 
occupying  the  motto-ribbon.  This  is  the  plate  of 
John-Lion,  the  seventh  proprietor  of  Gardiner's 
Island,  who  was  born  November  8,17  70,  and  who 
died  November  22,  181 6.  The  arms  are  the  same 
as  those  of  John  Gardiner,  but  the  tinctures  differ ; 
the  bugle-horns  are  gules  in  this  plate,  and  sable 
in  the  other.  This  plate  is  also  found  with  the 
autograph  of  David,  the  eighth  and  last  proprietor, 
under  the  will  of  Mary,  the  widow  of  Lion. 

295.  Gardiner.    John   Gardiner. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
This  is  the  plate  of  the  fifth  proprietor  of  Gardi- 
ner's Island.     Born,  1714;  died,  1764. 

296.  Gardiner.    John  Gardiner  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  patria  7nori. 
A  witty  and  eloquent  lawyer  of  Boston. 

297.  Gardiner.     Samuel  Gardiner. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  the  Maine  family. 

298.  Garnett.    John  Garnett. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty.  No 
crest. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     207 

299.  Georgetown  College.     Georgctoivn  College. 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  just  rising  from  the  stump  of  a 
tree  carries  a  ribbon  floating  in  his  beak,  on  which 
the  legend,  Presented  to  the  P.  Society  Librafj. 
Motto  above.  Lex  Ubertas  salusque  geutis. 

300.  Georgetown  College.     Collegium  Georgiopolitaniim,  ad 

ripas  Potaiuaci  in  Marylandia. 
The  American  eagle  displays  the  shield  of  our  coun- 
try on  his  breast ;  one  talon  is  upon  a  globe,  the 
other  grasps  a  cross.  The  motto,  Utraqiie  iininn, 
is  given  upon  a  ribbon  which  flutters  from  the  beak 
of  the  eagle.  Above,  in  a  blaze  of  glory,  an  ancient 
lyre  is  seen.  Branches  of  oak  rise  on  either  side  of 
the  design. 

301.  Ghiton.     William  R.  Gliiton.     iji8. 

Armorial. 

302.  GiBBES.     Edmund  A.  Gibbes. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  South  Carolina. 

303.  GiBBES.    James  S.  Gibbes. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Amor  vincit  naturae.  Of 
Charleston,  S.C. 

304.  GiBBS.    John  Walters  Gibbs. 

Armorial.  A  very  peculiar  frame  showing  Jacobean, 
Chippendale,  and  Ribbon  and  Wreath  features.  No 
motto.     Crude  work. 

305.  GiBBS.    John  Walters  Gibbs.     Charleston.  So.  Carolina. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Beware 
?ny  edge,  in  reference  to  the  battle-axes  of  shield 
and  crest.  Signed,  Abemethie  Sculpt.  The  edge  of 
the  shield  is  close-trimmed  with  festooning,  and  tall 
vases  rest  upon  the  scrolls  at  the  sides. 

306.  Gibs.    James  Gibs. 

Armorial. .    Of  New  York.     Signed  by  Maverick. 

307.  Giles.     Daniel  Giles. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Toujouis 
le  meme. 

308.  Giles.     J^ames  Giles. 

Armorial.  Military  trophies  with  slight  Ribbon  and 
Wreath  ornamentation.      Motto,  Libertas  et  patria 


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mca.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculp.  Behind  the  shield 
a  plentiful  supply  of  munitions  of  war  are  arranged. 
The  flags  of  the  United  States  and  of  England, 
swords,  pikes,  lances,  muskets,  bayonets,  cannon  in 
the  act  of  discharging,  trumpets,  drums,  wormers, 
ramrods,  cleaners,  piles  of  cannon-balls,  and  kegs 
of  powder  are  in  the  assortment. 

309.  Gilmer.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

310.  Gilpin.     Henry  D.  Gilpin. 

Pictorial.  The  arms  are  carved  upon  a  large  frag- 
ment of  the  adjacent  ruins,  and  which  lies  at  the 
base  of  a  broken  column.  The  ribbon  under  the 
shield  bears  the  motto,  Dictis  factisque  simplex.  A 
large  tree  rises  behind  the  broken  column  and  cuts 
off  the  view,  but  a  part  of  a  castle  is  visible,  and 
between  it  and  the  fore  view  a  knight  on  horseback 
assisted  by  one  on  foot  is  chasing  a  wild  boar, 
which  is  a  plain  reference  to  the  charge  on  the 
shield.  Signed,  C.  G.  Ciiilds.  Attorney-General 
of  the  United  States.     1S40-1841. 

311.  Gilpin.     Henry  D.  Gilpin. 

A  plate  so  nearly  identical  with  the  preceding  as  to 
be  taken  for  it  without  close  examination.  This 
plate  is  not  signed. 

312.  Gilpin.     (Anonymous.) 

The  plate  of  John  Gilpin,  English  Consul  at  New- 
port.    Motto,  Dictis  factisque  simplex. 

313.  GoELET.      John  Goelet. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  A  beautiful  example.  No 
motto.     Not  signed,  but  probably  by  Maverick. 

314.  Goodwin.     George  Goodwin. 

Pictorial.  A  bracket  of  graceful  design  and  orna- 
mentation supports  two  substantial  piles  of  books, 
between  which  ensconced  in  branches  of  flowers 
and  holding  a  lyre  in  his  hands,  sits  a  pleasant-faced 
cupid.  Attributed  to  Doolittle.  Publisher  of  "  The 
Courant,"  Hartford,  Conn. 

315.  GoRHAM.     J^oseph  Go?-ham. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Par  esperance  et 
activite  nous  surmontons.     Signed,  W.  Smith  Sculp. 


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At  the  right  hand,  standing  on  the  name  scroll,  is  an 
Indian  with  his  feet  upon  a  snake  which  is  stretched 
at  full  length.  The  savage  is  in  civilized  clothing, 
and  carries  a  tomahawk  in  his  folded  arms ;  behind 
him  the  ends  of  bows,  arrows,  quiver,  and  tomahawk 
stand  out  from  behind  the  shield.     On  the  other 


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side  is  a  British  regular  with  drawn  sword  in  his 
folded  arms  ;  for  a  background  he  has  a  powder- 
horn,  drum,  lances,  and  the  British  flag. 

316.    GouRGAS.     J^-J^-J'^-  Goi/rgas. 

Armorial.  Apparently  of  French  make.  No 
motto.  Signed,  P.  L.  In  the  New  York  Directory 
of  1837,  the  name  of  John  J.  J.  Gourgas  is  given; 


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2IO  American  Book-plates. 

a  merchant.  This  plate  is  from  the  same  copper 
as  the  Jean  Louis  Gourgas,  which  is  a  French  plate 
seen  in  several  collections. 

317.  Gr.'ICIE.     Robert  Grade. 

Crest  only.  Motto,  God  o^rant  grace.  Signed, 
Lewis  Sculp.  In  the  New  York  Directory  of  1826 
as  a  merchant. 

318.  Graeme.     Elizabeth  Graeme. 

Armorial,  The  arms  are  in  a  lozenge  with  Chip- 
pendale ornamentation  of  exceeding  gracefulness. 
No  motto.  Of  Philadelphia.  An  accomplished 
woman  in  Hterature. 

319.  Gr-^ham.     Henry  Hale  Gi-aham. 

Armorial.  Signed,  J.  Sinither  sc.  Eminent  lawyer 
of  Chester,  Penn. 

320.  Graham.    John  A.  Graham.     M.D. 

Armorial.     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     IMotto,  Ne  onblie. 

321.  Gr-ANT Grant.     (First  name  erased.) 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Stand  sure.  Of  Scottish 
descent. 

322.  Gray.     Gray. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  IMotto,  /;/  Deo 
fides.     Probably  by  Callender. 

323.  Green.     Francis  Green. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Aestate  hyetne  que 
idem.   A  Boston  merchant.    Signed.,  N.  Hurd  Sculp. 

324.  Green.     Garrett  Greens'  Private  Library.     8og   Green- 

wich Street. 

A  printed  label  with  the  following  motto.  When  we 
are  deprived  of  friends  we  should  look  upon  good 
books  {they  are  true  friends  that  will  neither  flatter 
nor  dissemble  :^,  and  we  should  study  to  knota  our- 
selves. The  borrower  ivill  please  read  and  return 
this  Book  uninjured  and  without  delay.  Circa, 
1822. 

325.  Green.    John  Green  Jr.  of  Worcester. 

A  grotesque  plate.  The  name  is  enclosed  within  a 
frame  which  is  filled  with  mementoes  of  the 
dissecting  room,  and  with  various  mottoes. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      2 1 1 

326.  Greene.     Benjamin  Greene. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.  A  very  neat  and  pretty  plate. 
A  wealthy  merchant  of  Boston ;  of  a  branch  of  the 
Rhode  Island  family. 

327.  Greene.     Benjamin  Greene.     1757. 

The  same  copper  as  the  above  but  with  the  date 
1757  added  beneath  the  name ;  this  was  probably 
placed  there  some  time  subsequent  to  the  date  of 
engraving,  although  very  likely  the  correct  date. 
Signature  unchanged.  Illustrated  in  "  Art  Ama- 
teur," April,  1S94. 

328.  Greene.     B.  D.  Greene. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto.  A 
small  plate,  very  neat  in  appearance. 

329.  Greene.     David  Gi-eene. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Nee  timeo  nee 
sperno.     Signed,   Revere   sep.     Of    Massachusetts. 

330.  Greene.     Thomas  Greene  Jiinr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Study  to  know  thy- 
self. Signed,  N.  Hitrd  Sep.  Very  similar  to  the 
plate  of  Benjamin  Greene. 

331.  Greenleaf.      William  Green  leaf. 

Armorial.     Signed,  N.  Hurd.     Sep. 

332.  Greenough.     The  Property  of  David  Stoddard   Green- 

oiigh. 

A  printed  name  label  with  borders  of  ornamental 
type.  The  motto.  Return  what  thou  borrowest, 
7vith  the  most  saered  punetuality,  and  withhohi  it 
not,  is  printed  between  the  borders.  A  woodcut 
pattern  of  festooning  and  sprays  of  flowers  encloses 
the  whole.     Signed,   William  Greenough  feeit. 

ZZZ-   Greenwood.     Isaae  Grccmuood. 

Pictorial.  An  anchor  enclosed  within  a  circular 
frame  which  bears  the  name ;  slight  foliations 
within  the  frame.  Resembles  an  old  printer's 
mark  somewhat. 


212  American  Book-plates. 

334.  Griggs.     A.  Griggs  riiiladclphia. 

Pictorial.  In  a  position  quite  impossible  to  imagine 
outside  of  the  picture,  are  three  books  thrown  upon 
a  huge  rock,  holding  a  scroll  outspread,  which 
hangs  down  over  a  rushing  brook.  Indeed,  one 
corner  of  the  scroll  dips  into  the  water ;  a  few 
brushes  and  stunted  or  dead  trees  complete  the 
landscape.  This  is  a  woodcut  in  the  style  of 
Anderson. 

335.  Guilford  Library.     Guilford  Library. 

Literary.  Motto,  Imp7-ove  your  hotirs  for  they 
7iever  return.  A  shelf  of  books  very  similar  to 
that  in  the  plate  of  George  Goodwin,  has  a  cloth 
festoon  looped  above  it ;  the  motto  is  on  a  circle 
enclosing  the  winged  hourglass ;  the  scroll-work 
above  this  is  made  into  the  form  of  a  face.  This 
plate  closely  resembles  that  of  the  Stepney  Society, 
in  Wethersfield,  which  is  by  Doolittle,  and  leads 
to  the  conclusion  that  this  is  also  his  work.  In 
1737  the  towns  of  Guilford,  Saybrook,  Killings- 
worth,  and  Lyme  formed  a  Library  Association. 
It  was  dissolved  a  little  before  1800,  and  Guilford 
formed  one  by  itself:  at  about  the  same  time  the 
young  people  of  the  town  started  a  library,  and 
these  two  were  united  in  1823  and  formed  the 
Union  Library  whose  plate  is  noticed  below. 

■^■^d.    Guilford.     Union  Library. 

Pictorial.  The  American  eagle,  with  shield,  olive 
branch,  bunch  of  arrows,  and  the  ribbon  with  the 
motto,  E  pluribus  unuvi,  is  printed  from  a  wood- 
cut;  the  motto,  l7npro7^e  yoiir  hours  for  they  never 
return,  is  printed  from  type  beneath. 

337.    GuiNAUD.     Henry  Guinaud. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Sans  venin.  A 
bow  and  quiver  of  arrows  and  a  Gainsborough  hat 
with  a  stick  thrust  through  it  are  seen  in  the 
ornamentation.  The  arms  are  peculiarly  un- 
pleasant, being  a  huge  ten-legged  scorpion  printed 
very  black.  This  is  repeated  in  the  crest.  Of 
Baltimore. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      213 

338.  GuRNEY.     Henry  Giinicy.     Esqr.     Pliiladclpliia. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Sperne 
siicccssus  alit. 

339.  Hale.     Robert  Hale  Esqr  of  Beverly. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed, 
N.  Hurd  Sep.  Prominent  man  in  Massachusetts ; 
under  Pepperell  at  Louisburg.  From  this  family 
of  Hales  came  Nathan  Hale. 

340.  Hall.    James  Hall. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Not  signed, 
but  attributed  to  Turner.  Lawyer  and  author  of 
Philadelphia. 

341.  Hall.     Thomas  Hall.     lySy. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  P)elieved  to  be 
the  first  postmaster  under  Washington,  in  Charles- 
ton, S.C. 

342.  Hall.      William  Hall. 

Armorial.  Arms,  Quarterly  ist  and  4th,  Sable, 
three  talbot's  heads  erased  argent,  collared  gules, 
2nd  and  3rd,  Sable,  three  leopard's  heads  jessant- 
de-lys,  orgeant.  Crest,  a  talbot's  head  erased 
sable. 

343.  Hallowell.     Robert  Halhnvell. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  is  probably 
the  work  of  Callender.  Comptroller  of  the  Customs 
in  Boston.  A  Loyalist  whose  home  was  mobbed. 
One  of  his  sisters  married  Samuel  Vaughn,  whose 
plate  impales  the  Hallowell  arms. 

344.  Hamersley.    J.  W.  Hamersley. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Honore  et  amore.  Signed, 
Faithorne.     A  New  York  lawyer. 

345.  Hamilton.     William  Hamilton. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto.  Of 
Pennsylvania.  A  Loyalist.  Nephew  of  Governor 
James  Hamilton.  His  country  seat  was  "The 
Woodlands,"  now  the  Woodland  Cemetery  of 
Philadelphia. 


214  American  Book-plates. 

344.    Hanchett.    John  Hanchett. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto. 
Taken  from  a  book  containing  the  autograph  of 
the  owner,  with  the  d^te,  Aug.  28,  1768,  and  the 
residence  given  as  Hartford. 

347.  Harris.     Alexandei' Ha7-ris,  Architect,  Boston. 

An  engraved  label. 

348.  Harison.     Richard  Hariso7i.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  INIotto,  Nee  te  qitaesiveris 
extra.  A  large  plate,  very  pretty  in  appearance, 
but  strange  in  the  tincture  of  the  arms.  Of  New 
York. 

349.  Harrison.     Rich'd.  Harrison. 

Crest  only.  Motto,  Nee  te  qitaesiveris  extra.  A 
lambrequin  looped  up  with  cord  and  fasteners 
above.  Signed,  Rollinson  Sculpt.  Presumably 
belonging  to  the  same  owner  as  the  last. 

350.  Hartford.     Hartford  Lib rajy  Company. 

An  engraved  name-label ;  the  name  within  an  oval 
frame,  with  a  festoon  of  roses  about  it,  and  sprays 
of  p  dm  crossed  beneath.  Now  the  Hartford 
Public  Library. 

351.  Harvard.      Sigill :  Coll :  Harvard :  Cantab  :  Nov  :  Angl : 

1650. 

Armorial.  ?>\gned,  N.  Hi/?-d  Sculp.  MoUo,  Chris  to 
et  ecclesia.  The  design  is  in  the  form  of  a  seal,  and 
is  enclosed  within  branches  of  holly.  Above  all  a 
ribbon  bears  the  words,  Detiir  digniori,  showing  the 
use  and  purpose  of  the  plate  to  have  been  for 
insertion  in  books  presented  as  prizes  to  the  stu- 
dents.    This  is  the  earliest  of  the  Harvard  plates. 

352.  Harvard.      Sigill:  Coll :  Harvard :  Cantab  :  Nov  :  Angl : 

1650. 

Armorial.  The  arms  of  the  college  enclosed  within 
a  double  circle  which  bears  the  inscription.  The 
motto,  Christo  et  ecclesia,  is  just  inside  the  border. 
The  framework  is  embellished  with  a  profusion  of 
fruit  and  flowers ;  in  the  place  of  the  crest,  a  pile 
of  three  books  with  the  sun  in  splendor  above  them ; 


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215 


2i6  American  Book-plates. 

on  each  side  of  the  books  two  slender  vases  stand- 
ing upon  an  upward  curl  of  the  ornamentation  hold 
bouquets ;  below  this  whole  design  a  gorgeous 
curtain  is  spread  out  to  contain  the  name  of  the 
giver  of  the  book  ;  this  is  backed  by  a  frame  whose 
edge  only  is  seen ;  this  is  elaborately  scrolled,  and 
is  finished  at  the  bottom  with  the  canephoros  head 
and  shell  pattern  ;  two  globes  at  the  uppermost 
part,  on  either  side,  complete  the  decoration. 
Signed,  N.  Hurd  Boston.  Several  plates  are  known 
very  similar  to  this,  but  having  different  names  upon 
the  curtain.  One  of  them  has  simply  the  words 
Ex  Dono,  with  the  curtain  left  blank  for  the  writing 
of  the  giver's  name.  Others  have  the  name  of 
donors  of  quantities  of  books  engraved  upon  the 
curtain  ;  among  these  are,  Hancock  and  TJiorndike. 

353.  Harvard.      Sigill :  Coll :  Harvard :  Cantab  :  Nov :  Angl : 

1650. 

A  very  close  copy  of  the  above  in  all  particulars  ; 
indeed,  a  fac-simile  of  it.  Signed,  A.  Bowen.  On 
some  of  them  appear  the  name  of  Shapleigh,  and 
on  others,  Ex  Dono  Samuelis  A.  Eliot. 

354.  Harvard.      Sigill :  Coll :  Harvard :  Cantab  :  Nov :  Angl : 

1650. 

This  is  again  a  copy  in  the  main  of  the  plate  by 
Hurd,  but  is  later  than  the  last.  The  ornamenta- 
tion is  similar  to  that  used  by  Hurd,  but  is  changed 
in  some  particulars ;  the  canephoros  head  is  re- 
placed by  a  bunch  of  grapes,  the  sun  is  missing 
above  the  pile  of  books,  and  all  the  work  has  lost 
in  beauty  of  execution.  Signed,  Andretu  Filner. 
This  plate  is  used  to  record  the  gifts  of  many 
persons,  among  them  being  :  — 

Samuel  Shapleigh.     (  Class  of  lySg.) 
Joshua  Green.     M.D.     {Class  of  18 18.) 
Samuel  Abbott  Green.     M.D.     {Class  of  iSji.) 
Jonathan  Broivn  Bright.     {1884.) 

355.  Harvard.     Academiae  Harvardianae  Sigillum.    1638. 

The  arms  of  the  college  as  usual,  with  the  addition 
of  the  word  Veritas  upon  the  open  books.     This 


Early  American  Book-plates.     217 

plate  in  its  general  design  was  suggested  by  the 
plate  of  Hurd,  but  is  quite  different  in  details. 
The  curtain,  simpler  in  make,  is  still  here,  and  the 
shield  is  in  the  usual  position,  but  the  fruit  and 
flowers  are  replaced  by  an  august  assemblage  of  the 
gods  and  goddesses  who  are  the  special  patrons  of 
learning.  Signed,  H.  Billings  del.  C.  G.  Smith 
Sc. 

356.  Harvard  College.     Hasty  Pudding  Library. 

Pictorial.  Two  Doric  pillars  uphold  a  large  curtain 
which  is  looped  at  the  top,  and  left  plain  in 
the  centre  for  the  writing  in  of  donors'  names. 
Above  this  a  circular  frame  encloses  a  picture  of  an 
iron  pot,  supposedly  full  of  pudding,  towards  which 
two  hands,  one  with  a  bowl  in  its  clasp,  and  one 
holding  a  spoon,  approach.  The  motto,  Seges  voiis 
rcspondet,  is  given  upon  the  frame.  Directly  under 
this  is  the  date,  1808.  Below  the  curtain  a  figure 
of  the  Sphynx  is  seen  surrounded  by  books  in 
curved  shelves.  The  bases  of  the  pillars  bear  the 
words,  Concordia  discors.  Signed,  Callender  Sc. 
A  Harvard  College  Society  plate. 

357.  Harvard  College.     Porcellian  Library. 

A  large  and  handsome  curtain  looped  up  with  cord 
in  large  bow-knots  is  left  as  usual  for  the  donors' 
names  ;  above  it  two  small  pillars  with  the  Greek 
letters  on  their  bases,  '0/a  'EA  ;  the  pillars  are 
joined  by  a  chain  which  passes  behind  an  oval 
medallion  on  which  the  clasped  hands  are  shown  ; 
above  this  the  circular  frame  bearing  the  name 
encloses  the  hog ;  .  the  frame  is  ornamented  with 
sprays  of  palm  and  roses,  and  a  pile  of  three  books, 
as  so  often  in  plates  of  Harvard  College,  form  the 
crest.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  it  strongly 
resembles  the  work  of  Callender. 

358.  Harvard  College.     Porcellian  Club.     1803. 

Allegorical.  Two  stone  pillars  support  a  circular 
frame  within  which  the  hog  is  pictured.  On  the 
frame  the  name  of  the  club  is  given ;  below  hangs 
a  poor  curtain  for  the  name  of  the  donor  of  books ; 


2i8  American  Book-plates. 

above  are  the  arms  surrounded  by  the  grape-vine, 
and  having  books,  a  loving  cup,  lance,  and  foil 
grouped  about.  The  motto  across  the  face  of  the 
shield  on  a  bend,  Fide  et  Amiciiia.  Greek  letters 
on  the  base  of  the  pillars,  'O/a  'EA. 

359.  Harvard  College.     Porcellian  Library. 

In  this  plate  the  curtain  is  suspended  between  two 
very  tall  amphorae  which  rest  upon  books  bearing 
the  Greek  letters  '0/x  'EA  upon  their  backs  ;  behind 
the  curtain  two  hogs  disport  themselves ;  the 
circular  frame  is  above  them  and  encloses  the  rep- 
resentation of  a  punch  bowl,  under  which  is  the 
motto,  Diim  vivimus  vivamus.  Above  all,  the 
shield  of  arms  with  the  motto  on  a  bend.  Fide  et 
Amicitia,  is  graced  by  grape-vine  branches,  and  the 
crossed  lance  and  sword.  Signed,  F.  Mitchell. 
Del. 

360.  Hawks.     Francis  L.  Hawks. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Never  check.  Clergyman  and 
author.  Left  a  large  collection  of  books  to  the 
New  York  Historical  Society,  where  they  are  kept 
in  a  room  appropriated  to  their  sole  occupancy. 

361.  Hay.     Mr.  George  Hay. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Serva  jiiguin. 
Jurist  of  Virginia.     Prosecutor  of  /\aron  Burr. 

362.  Hay.     Peter  Hay.     M.D. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto,  Scrva  jiigum. 
2^Gi.    Hay.      William  Robert  Hay.     M.A. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto.  Was  a  student  at  the 
Inner  Temple,  London,  in  1781. 

364.  Hayne.     Isaac  Hayiie. 

Armorial.  Revolutionary  patriot.  Born,  1 745  ; 
hanged  by  the  British  in  Charleston,  S.C,  1742. 

365.  Hayne.     Robert  Hayne. 

Armorial.     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     No  motto. 

366.  Hays.     Barrack  Hays_ 

Landscape.  The.  shield  rests  against  a  shattered 
tree.  In  the  distance,  hills  and  water.  Signed, 
7.  Hi/tl  Sci/l/y. 


Early  Americmi  Book-plates.      219 


367.  Hayward.     Benjamin  Hayiuard. 

Of  Charleston,  S.C. 

368.  Hayward.     George  Hayivard. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto. 
Flags,  cannon,  a  trumpet,  and  a  lance  form  the 
background  to  the  shield  ;  the  mantling  runs  down 
and  joins  the  flowering  branches  which  are  crossed 
beneath  the  shield.  Below  the  name  which  is  on 
the  motto-ribbon,  hangs  a  small  curtain,  probably 
for  the  number  of  the  volume. 

369.  Hayward.     Sarah  Hayward. 

Armorial.  The  same  copper  as  the  above  with  the 
first  name  altered. 


220  American  Book-plates. 

370.  Hayward.     Thof?tas  Hayward. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  A  signer  of 
the  Declaration  from  South  Carolina. 

371.  Heath.    Joliii  Heath.     Boston. 

An  engraved  label  in  which  the  sun  rises  above  the 
name,  which  is  enclosed  in  festoons  and  sprays. 

372.  Heming,     Samuel  Heming.  de  sane  fa  Anna  Parochia  in 

Jamaiea.     Armigr. 

Armorial.      Chippendale.      Motto,   Aiit  nunquani 

tentes  aut  perfiee.     Very  fine  work. 

373.  Henderson.    James  Henderson,  Williainsburg. 

Pictorial.  Military.  A  woodcut  very  similar  to 
the  Timothy  Newell. 

374.  Herbert.     Herbert. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Un  lay,  un  roy, 
7/n  foy.  Not  signed,  but  probably  the  work  of 
Maverick. 

375.  Herman.     Sum  Ex  Libris  Frederiei  Hermani,  Sapientia 

praestat  divitiis. 

Printed  label.     Of  Pennsylvania. 

376.  Hicks.     Elias  Hicks. 

Plain  armorial.  P)ehind  the  shield  a  sword  is  seen 
and  on  its  belt  the  motto  is  given.  Tout  en  bonne 
heure.  Signed,  P.  Maverick.  S.  Distinguished 
Quaker  preacher. 

377.  Hicks.     Elias  Hicks. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Judicemur 
agendo.     Signed,  RoUinson  Set. 

378.  Hicks.      Whitehead  Hicks.     Esqr. 

Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  lege  et  rege.  Signed, 
H.  Daivkins.  Sculpt.  At  the  left  a  cupid  is  play- 
ing a  flute ;  to  which  accompaniment  his  com- 
panion sings  from  a  sheet  of  music  held  in  his 
hand.  At  the  right,  a  female  in  a  costume  of 
extreme  simplicity  sits  under  a  jutting  rose  branch, 
while  awaiting  a  cupid  who  is  seen  struggling 
towards  her  with  a  large  volume.  Of  the  same 
Quaker  family.  Mayor  of  New  York  City,  1766- 
1776. 


Early  Americmi  Book-plates.      221 

379.  Hill.     Alanus  Samuel  Hill. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Non  sibi 
sed  patriae. 

380.  Hill.     Sam' I.  Hill. 

Literary.  Within  an  oval  formed  by  branches  of 
pahn  and  holly,  two  books  with  quill  and  ink-pot 
upon  them.     Probably  the  plate  of  the  engraver. 

381.  Hoar.     Rieliard  Hoar. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  This  plate  is 
not  signed,  but  it  bears  a  strong  resemblance  to  the 
work  of  Hurd. 

382.  Hoffman.     Philip  L.  Hoffman.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Carpe 
diem.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  New  York.  A 
bit  of  landscape  introduced  below  the  shield,  as 
was  often  Maverick's  way ;  a  stretch  of  water,  trees, 
books,  and  writing  materials  complete  the  adjuncts. 
The  name  is  signed  on  an  open  scroll ;  this  lower 
part  of  the  plate  is  very  similar  to  the  plate  of  Pros- 
per Wetmore  by  the  same  engraver.    Of  New  York. 

2,'$>Tf.    PIOLLADAY.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

384.    HoLLiNGSWORTH.     Lcvi  HolHiigswortli.    Armorial.    Chip- 
pendale.    No  motto. 

3  85.    HoLYOKE.     Edward  Augustus  Holyoke. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Duce  natura 
scquor.  Not  signed,  but  without  doubt  the  work  of 
Hurd.  Eminent  physician  and  surgeon  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Lived  to  a  great  age  and  performed  an 
operation  at  the  age  of  92, 

386.  HoLYOKE.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Sacra 
qucrcus.  This  plate  is  presumably  of  the  Holyoke 
family,  as  the  motto  is  the  family  motto,  the  arms 
are  meant  to  be  the  Holyoke  arms,  and  the  crest 
is  correctly  an  oak-tree.  The  design  and  execu- 
tion of  this  plate  are  poor. 

387.  Hooper.     Sweft  Hooper. 

Pictorial.  Over  a  vase  full  of  flowers,  two  cupids 
bearing  a  scroll  on  which  is  the  motto,  The  luicked 
borroia  C^  return  not. 


222  Americmt  Book-plates. 

388.  Hooper.      William  Hooper. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Haec  etiam  par- 
entibiis.  Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.  Plate  of  the  signer 
of  the  Declaration  from  North  Carolina. 

389.  Hopkins.     (Anonymous.)     Plate  of  Reuben  Hopkins. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Piety  is 
peaee.  The  frame  which  supports  the  shield  rests 
upon  two  books  ;  other  books,  a  globe,  and  a  tele- 
scope are  among  the  decorations. 

390.  HoPKiNSON.     Franeis  Hopkinso7i. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Semper  parahts. 
Signed,  H.  Daivkins  Sculp.  The  frame  is  very  like 
that  of  the  Bushrod  Washington  plate  in  some 
respects.  This  type  is  not  uncommon;  the  pecul- 
iar cant  of  the  shield,  the  hissing  griffin  perched 
threateningly  upon  the  corner  of  the  frame,  and 
the  very  form  and  arrangement  of  the  flowers  and 
spray  are  duplicated  in  several  instances.  Son  of 
Thomas  Hopkinson,  the  Councillor  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. A  signer  of  the  Declaration  from  New 
Jersey. 

391.  Hopkinson.    Joseph  Hopkinson. 

Armorial.  The  same  copper  as  the  last,  with  the 
name  changed.  The  first  name,  Francis,  is  not 
well  removed  and  shows  in  the  printing  of  the 
plate.  Son  of  Francis.  A  distinguished  lawyer. 
Author  of  "  Hail  Columbia." 

392.  HoRANlAN  SociET\\     Horanian  Society  Libraty. 

Allegorical.  The  large  shield  displays  a  picture  of 
the  Madonna ;  the  supporters  are  Diana  and  the 
Muse  of  History ;  the  crest  is  a  pile  of  three  books 
with  an  owl  perched  upon  them.  A  large  pediment 
supports  the  shield  and  the  figures,  and  on  its  f;ice 
the  name  is  given  within  an  elliptical  frame;  fes- 
toons and  a  curtain  of  cloth  hang  about  it,  and  the 
motto,  Mutual  Improvement,  is  given  upon  a  ribbon 
which  is  draped  across  the  top  of  the  frame. 
Signed,  P.  R.  Maverick  Set.  No.  j  Crown  Street. 
N.Y. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      223 

393.  Horry.     Dan  Horry.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Toujours  fidele. 
Of  South  Carolina. 

394.  HoRSMANDEN.     Daniel  Horsmatiden.     Esqr, 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  De  inferior  tejnplo 
socius.  Author  of  "  Negro  Plot  of  New  York, 
1 741."  Published  in  1810.  Born,  1691  ;  died, 
Flatbush,  1778.     Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  65. 

395.  HuBARD.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

396.  Humphrey.     Henry  B.  Hi/inphrey. 

Pictorial.  A  very  graceful  framework  encloses 
several  spaces  which  are  occupied  by  decorative 
features.  Above  the  name,  Minerva,  helmeted  and 
robed,  with  shield  and  spear,  is  seated  attended  by 
the  owl.  Beneath  her  the  motto  appears  on  a 
curved  portion  of  the  frame,  Infer  folia  fruefus. 
Beneath  this  again  is  the  name  within  an  oval 
formed  by  two  writhing  snakes ;  at  either  side  of 
this  are  female  griffins,  sejant.  At  the  very  lowest 
point  of  the  design  a  grotesque  canephoros  head 
is  seen.     Of  Boston. 

397.  Hunter.     Archibald  Hunter. 

Armorial,     Signed  by  Dawkins. 

398.  Hunter.    John  Hunfer. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     A  small  plate. 

399.  Hunter.     His  Excellency,  Robert  Hiinter.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  At  re  noti  impetu. 
In  writing,  the  General  and  Chief  General  of 
Jamaica.  Author  of  the  famous  letter  on 
"  Enthusiasm,"  which  was  attributed  to  Shaftes- 
bury and  to  Swift.  Became  Governor  of  Jamaica 
in  1728. 

400.  Hunter.     William  J.  Hunter. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Sola  bona 
quae  honesfa.  Signed,  Engrd.  by  P.  R.  Alaverick 
65  Liberty  St.     N.  Y. 

401.  HuRD.     Name  of  Hurd. 

Armorial.  The  arms  seem  to  be  wholly  imaginary, 
or   at   least    borrowed   from    som^    other    family. 


224  American  Book-plates. 

Arms,  Az.  a  lion  ramp.  or.  on  a  chief  ar.  a  stork 
ppr.  between  two  mullets  sa.  Crest,  A  bird  sa.  on 
a  garb  fess-ways  ppr.  No  motto.  The  name  occu- 
pies the  ribbon.  This  plate  is  crude  in  appear- 
ance, and  not  unlike  the  work  of  Nathaniel  Hurd ; 
it  may  have  been  an  early  attempt  of  his  for  him- 
self or  some  member  of  his  family.  The  copy 
before  me  has  written  upon  it,  "  Isaac  Hurd's  pre- 
sented to  Barzillai  Frost." 

402.  HvsLOP.     By  the  name  of  Hyslop. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto,  the 
name  occupying  the  motto-ribbon. 

403.  HvsLOP.     Robt.  Hyslop. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Vincit 
omnia  Veritas.  A  rude  piece  of  engraving.  The 
garland  draped  behind  the  shield  is  very  stiff,  antl 
the  oak  branches  at  the  sides  are  ungraceful. 

404.  Ingersoll.    fared  Ingersoll  Esqr.  of  Nezu  Haven   Con- 

necticut. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Fama  sed  virtus 
no7i  moriatur.  Lawyer;  born,  1749;  died,  1822. 
Studied  in  the  Middle  Temple,  London.  Member 
of  the  Old  Congress,  1780-1781.  In  1812  was  the 
Federal  candidate  for  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States.  Author  of  a  rare  pamphlet  on  the  Stamp 
Act,  New  Haven,  4to,  1766. 

405.  Inglis.     Inglis. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  /;/  tcnebris  lucidor.  Of 
New  York. 

406.  Inglis.     Alexr.  Inglis. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Lucidor  in  tene- 
bris.  The  heraldry  is  mixed  and  the  motto  twisted. 
Of  South  Carolina. 

407.  Inglis.     George  Inglis.     Fctcrsbutg. 

A  woodcut  border  with  the  name  in  type  within  it. 
The  border  is  elaborate,  with  cornucopiag  of  flowers 
at  either  side,  and  ornamental  pieces  in  the  cor- 
ners. In  the  copy  at  hand  the  type  is  set  in 
wrongly,  so  that  the  frame  is  bottom  up. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      225 

AoS.    Inglis.    John  Inglis. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Rede  faciendo 
securus.     Of  Pennsylvania. 

409.  Ingraham.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Magnanifiius 
esto.     Name  bracket  empty. 

410.  Ingr-AHAm.     Edward  D.  Ingraham. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Magnanimus 
esto.  It  was  said  of  him  that  if  he  wanted  a  book, 
he  would  prefer  to  buy  it ;  if  he  could  not  buy,  he 
would  borrow  (not  to  return),  and  if  necessary 
would  even  steal  it.  A  man  of  great  learning  and 
eccentricity.  Lawyer  of  Philadelphia.  Illustrated 
in  "Art  Amateur,"  April,  1S94. 

411.  Ingraham.     Edzvd.  D.  Ing7-ahani. 

Crest  only. 

412.  Ingraham.     Edward  D.  Ingraliam. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto. 

413.  Ingraham.     Ed^vard  D.  Ingraham. 

Crest  only,  enclosed  in  a  garter  on  which  the  motto 
is  given,  —  Magnanimus  esto. 

414.  Innes.     Cobnel  Lines. 

Plain  armorial.  Moiio,  Je  recois  pour  donner.  Of 
North  Carolina. 

415.  Iredell.    James  Iredell. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto ;  name  on 
motto-ribbon.  Jurist  of  North  Carolina.  Illus- 
trated in  "Art  Amateur,"  March,  1894. 

416.  IsELiN.     Helen  Iselin. 

Plain  armorial.  Crude  work ;  the  mantling  very 
scraggly.     No  motto. 

417.  Izard.     R.S.Izard. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  arms  are  carved  on  what 
bears  strong  resemblance  to  a  gravestone  ;  a  draped 
female  figure  stands  leaning  upon  the  stone  holding 
a  book  open,  on  which  the  motto.  Hoc  age,  is  given. 

418.  Jackson.    James  Jackson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Bona 
quae  honcsta. 

Q 


226  American  Book-plates. 

419.  Jackson.    Jonathati  Jackson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Bona 
quae  hones ta.  Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.  A  Massa- 
chusetts statesman.  INIember  of  Old  Congress. 
Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur,"  April,  1894. 

420.  Jackson.      W.  Jackson. 

Ribbon  and  Wreath.  A  shield  is  suspended  from  a 
wall-pin  under  the  crest,  on  which  assumed  arms 
are  shown ;  in  chief  a  group  of  thirteen  stars  sur- 
rounded by  the  word  Independence ;  in  base  is  a 
plough,  indicative  of  the  spirit  of  the  owner.  Motto, 
Meliora  non  opto.  Perhaps  the  plate  of  Major 
William  Jackson,  a  prominent  patriot  of  the  Revo- 
lution ;  held  many  offices. 

421.  Jamaica.     The  Bishop  of  Jamaica. 

Armorial.  WoXXo,  Siinplius  sicut  columbae.  Signed, 
Griffiths  &  IVeigal/s  J  Si  James  St  Londn. 

422.  Jarvis.    Jarvis. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  A  very  handsome  and  peculiar 
plate,  in  which  the  shield  resembles  a  wind-filled 
sail ;  angry  waves  roll  at  the  foot,  and  a  part  of  a 
mast  and  sail  are  seen.  The  ornamentation  at  the 
sides  takes  the  form  of  trees  and  sprays  of  holly, 
while  roses  appear  at  the  sides.  ]\Iotto,  Adversis 
major  par  secundis. 

423.  Jarvis.     Samuel  Farmar  Jarvis.     D.D. 

Armorial.  Literary.  Mottoes  :  Hora  e  sempre,  and 
see  Sola  salus  servire  Deo.  The  shield  rests  against 
a  pile  of  books,  and  above  the  cross  and  crown  are 
seen  in  a  blaze  of  glory.  Son  of  Bishop  Abraham 
Jarvis. 

424.  Jauncey.    Jauncey. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Quo  vocat 
virtus.  The  name  William  is  written  in  on  the 
copy  at  hand.  He  was  a  merchant  in  New  York. 
His  father  was  an  eminent  ship-captain. 

425.  Jay.    John  Jay. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Deo  duce  perseverandum. 
Statesman. 


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426.   Jeffries.     Dr.  John  Jeffries. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto.  It  is  said  that  he  was 
the  surgeon  who  recognized  the  body  of  Warren  at 
the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  This  plate  is  not  signed, 
but  bears  strong  resemblance  to  the  work  of 
Callander. 


427.  Jeffries,    J.J. 

Crest  only.     Plate  of  John  Jeffries. 

428.  Jeffry.    James  Jeff ry. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.     Same   arms   as   the   succeeding. 

429.  Jenkins.     Robert  Jenkins. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  yio\.to,Non  ?-everterinvitus. 
Signed,  N.  Hiird.  Some  copies  are  dated  1751  in 
mss.     A  very  handsome  plate  in  which  the  arms  arc 


228  American  Book-plates. 

placed  against  a  diapered  background,  enclosed  by 
ornamental  scroll-work,  set  off  at  the  bottom  by  a 
spirited  scene  in  which  a  ship  under  full  sail  hastens 
from  view.  At  the  upper  part  of  the  frame  two 
grotesque  female  faces  peer  at  each  other  from 
across  the  space  in  which  the  crest  is  given.  In 
the  steeple  of  Christ  C'hurch,  Boston,  in  which  the 
lanterns  of  Paul  Revere  were  hung,  a  chime  of  eight 
bells,  made  by  Abel  Rudhall  of  Gloucester,  England, 
was  placed  in  i  744  ;  each  bell  bears  an  inscription  ; 
on  the  sixth  we  read  that  the  subscriptions  for  these 
bells  was  completed  by  Robert  Jenkins  and  John 
Gould,  Church  Wardens,  Anno  i  744. 

430.  Johnson.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Deo  regique  debeo. 
The  shield  rests  upon  an  elaborately  carved  pedes- 
tal, on  which  the  supporters,  American  Indians, 
stand.  This  is  very  probably  the  plate  of  Sir 
William  Johnson,  nephew  of  Admiral  Sir  Peter 
Warren,  and  colonial  agent  of  George  II.  for  the 
control  of  Indian  affairs  in  the  colony  of  New 
York  (1756).  Still,  the  plate  seems  hardly  old 
enough  to  have  been  his,  and  may  have  been  his 
son's.     Only  one  copy  is  known  to  the  writer. 

431.  Johnson.    John  I.Johnson. 

Pictorial.  A  cherub  coming  down  on  the  clouds 
carries  a  curtain  before  him,  spread  out,  and  on 
this  the  name  is  given.  A  brick  wall  frames  the 
oval  which  holds  the  picture.  Signed,  Maverick. 
St. 

432.  Iohnson.     Thomas  Johjison. 

Armorial.  Chippendale  \  rather  wild.  No  motto. 
The  design  is  supported  upon  four  short  columns 
which  rest  upon  a  large  shell.  Query  :  Is  this  an 
early  effort  of  Hurd's  (as  it  resembles  his  work), 
or  is  it  the  work  and  plate  of  Johnson,  the  engraver 
and  herald  painter? 

433.  Johnson.     W.  L.  Johnson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Per  aspera  ad 
astra.     Of  South  Carolina. 


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230  American  Book-plates. 

434.  Johnson.      Wm.  S.  Johnson  of  Connecticut  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chipj^endale.  Motto,  Per  aspera  ad 
astra.  Born  in  Connecticut.  Distinguished  jurist 
and  scholar.  Delegate  to  Congress,  1765;  agent 
of  Connecticut  in  England,  1 766-1  771. 

435.  Johnson.     VVni.  S.Johnson  LL.D. 

The  same  plate  as  the  above  with  the  inscription 
altered.  President  of  Columbia  College,  1787-1801. 

436.  Johnston,     yohnstott. 

Armorial.  Book-pile.  Motto,  Niinguam  non 
paratiis.  This  is  in  the  conventional  book-pile 
style,  and  is  the  only  example  we  hav^e  of  this 
peculiar  arrangement  of  books.  The  volumes  are 
piled  in  three  tiers  about  an  open  scroll  which  is 
suspended  in  the  centre  and  which  bears  the  arms. 
On  the  copy  before  me  the  letter  G  is  written 
before  the  name.     Of  Maryland. 

437.  Johnston,     yohn  Johnston. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Nunquam 
non  paratus.  Signed,  Afaverick  Sculpt.  Not  so 
striking  as  the  Thomas  Johnston. 

43S.    Johnston.     Robert  Johnston. 

Armorial.     Of  Turkey  Island. 

439.  Johnston.     Thomas  yohnston. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Nunquam 
non  paratus.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculp  N.Y.  A 
beautiful  plate. 

440.  Jones.      Gabriel  Jones.     Attorney  at  Law  in  Virginia. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pax  hospitia 
ruris. 

441.  Jones.     Gardner  Jones. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.     Of  Boston. 

442.  Jones.     Samuel  Jones  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Trust  in  God. 
Signed,  Dawkins  Sc.  This  plate  has  none  of  the 
extraneous  ornamentation  so  common  to  Dawkins. 
Member  of  Constitutional  Convention.  Illustrated 
in  "Art  Amateur,"  March,  1894. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      231 

443.   Jones.      William  G.Jones. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  \\Teath.  Motto,  Pax  et 
copia.  Born  Aug.  5,  1787.  Of  New  York.  The 
same  copper  as  the  Gardner  Jones  with  the  name 
altered,  and  the  motto  placed  on  the  ribbon. 


444.  JuDAH.     Benjamin  S.  Jiidah. 

Armorial,     Ribbon  and  Wreath,     Motto,  Fortittido 
et  jiistitia.     Signed,  Afaverick  Sculpt. 

445,  JuDAH,     Benjamin  S.  Jiidali. 

Armorial,     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     Motto,  Fortitudo 
et  jiistitia. 


232  American  Book-plates. 

446.  Keese.    John  Keese. 

A  small  engraved  label,  with  Chippendale  frame, 
and  books  at  either  side.  Signed,  Maverk.  Set. 
Earlier  than  the  following ;  a  very  unusual  signa- 
ture for  Maverick. 

447.  Keese.    JoJni  Keese. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Bcllo 
virtus.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.     Of  New  York. 

448.  Keffer.    Joint  C.  Keffer. 

Pictorial.  A  figure  representing  Commerce  is 
seated  on  a  rock  with  implements  of  Agriculture 
around  her ;  in  the  distance  can  be  seen  an 
expanse  of  water  with  boats  upon  it. 

449.  Keith.     Ex  Lib r is  Gul.  Keith. 

Armorial  in  form,  though  no  arms  are  shown. 
Early  English ;  heavy  mantling.  On  the  shield 
the  inscription  is  given.  The  only  copy  known 
(Loganian  Library)  is  dated  1727  in  ms.  Gov- 
ernor of  Pennsylvania,  171 7- 1726.  He  was  a 
"  desperate  intriguer."  See  "  Franklin's  Auto- 
biography." 

450.  Kemble.     Peter  Kemble. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  J.  Lewis.  Rather  crude  work.  An  illus- 
tration apparently  from  the  original  copper  may  be 
found  in  "The  Pilgrims  of  Boston,"  etc.,  by 
Thomas  Bridgman. 

451.  Kempe.    John  Tabor  Kempe.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  Motto,  Labour  to 
rest.  Last  Royal  Attorney-General  of  New  York. 
A  Loyalist  whose  estates  were  confiscated. 

452.  Kerr.    John  Leeds  Kerr.     (See  John  Leeds  Bozman.) 

453.  Key.     F.  S.  Key,  Georgetown,  Columbia. 

Label  with  type  border.  Lawyer  and  poet,  bom 
in  Maryland,  1779;  writer  of  "The  Star  Spangled 
Banner." 

454.  King.     Miles  King. 

Armorial.     Of  Norfolk,  Va. 


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455.  King.     Morris  King. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto,  Loyall  au  mort. 

456.  King.     Riifus  King. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Recte  et 
suaviter.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt. 

457.  King.     Sally  King,  Owner. 

Pictorial.  A  peculiar  plate,  drawn  in  ink,  by  hand. 
Two  columns  support  an  entablature,  in  the  centre 
of  which  a  large  representation  of  a  mariner's 
compass  is  given.  The  motto,  Cherish  Virtue,  is 
on  the  circular  frame  enclosing  it.  The  work  on 
all  parts  of  the  design  is  very  fine,  and  shows  a 
master  hand.  Not  many  of  these  plates  are  known, 
but  a  few  are  certainly  known  to  have  been  in  use. 
They  were,  presumably,  the  work  of  some  member 
of  the  family  who  was  efficient  with  the  pen,  and 
had  time  and  inclination  to  use  his  talent  thus. 
Although  dating  probably  about  1800,  the  ink  is 
fresh,  and  the  plate  clear  and  excellently  drawn. 

45  8.    Kingston.     Kingston. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  Pennsylvania. 

459.  Kingston,  Canada.     Santa  Johanis  Evangclistae  Sigilum 

Collcgi  Latonioruni.     Kingston,  Canada,  lyg^. 
Vesica-shaped  shield,  on  which  a  robed  figure  holds 
an  open  book,  which  shows  masonic  emblems  on 
its  pages. 

460.  KiNLOCH.     Francis  Kinloch.     Esqr. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Altius  tendo.  A  student 
at  Gray's  Inn  in  1774. 

461.  Kip.     Isaac  L.  Kip. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Victoris 
aut  mors.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  The  signa- 
ture is  on  a  scroll  upheld  by  a  winged  cherub,  who 
rests  against  a  stump.  Among  the  accessories  are 
a  book  labelled  LAW,  an  ink-pot,  etc. 

462.  Kip.     Leonard  Kip,  Netti  York. 

Pictorial.  Two  quills  are  crossed  above  a  scroll  on 
which  the  name  is  given.  Signed,  B.  Brown.  Sc 
President  of  the  North  River  Bank. 


234  American  Book-plates. 

463.  Kip.     Leonard  Kip. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Vestigia  nulla  retrorsum. 
Same  as  preceding. 

464.  KiRKPATRiCK.    James  Kirkpatrick. 

A  woodcut  label ;  books  and  other  literary  prop- 
erty are  distributed  about;  the  name  is  on  an 
opened  scroll. 

465.  KisSAM.     Benjamin  Kissam. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Honesfum  Prae- 
tulit  Jitil.  Signed,  H.  Daivkins.  Inv.  et  Sculp. 
This  is  in  the  happiest  vein  of  this  engraver.  At 
the  left  a  young  lady  in  the  low-necked,  hooped 
dress  of  the  period,  carrying  a  shepherd's  crook, 
and  at  the  right  the  shepherd  himself,  but  having 
his  crook,  is  seated.  By  his  side  a  very  docile, 
even  weakly  appearing  lamb,  listens  while  he  plays 
the  flageolet.  A  prominent  lawyer  in  New  York  in 
the  middle  of  the  last  century. 

466.  Knight.    Jonathan  Knighfs  Book  No. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  A  small  plate  of  rude  work- 
manship. On  the  motto-ribbon  are  the  words, 
By  the  name  of  Knight.  A  Revolutionary  army 
surgeon  ;  died  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  1829. 

467.  Knights.     Knights  of  the  Square  Table. 

Armorial.  Architectural.  A  stone  canopy  is 
erected  in  Pointed  Gothic  style,  across  the  face  of 
which,  and  hiding  from  view  the  long  windows,  a 
curtain  is  stretched,  along  the  top  of  which  the 
motto,  Cassis  Tutis  Sima  Virtus,  is  shown.  The 
shield  of  arms  is  placed  above  the  window-tops, 
and  is  surrounded  by  mantling  rather  straight  and 
original  in  design.  At  the  very  foot  the  date  i8og 
appears. 

468.  Knox.      William  George  Knox.     Trinidad. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Moreo  et  proficio. 

469.  L.     Ex  Libris  L. 

Armorial.  The  shield  is  enclosed  within  a  large 
letter  L,  a  French  crown  surmounts  it,  and  on  a 
ribbon  at  the  foot  is  seen  yoe  L — .  Signed,  P. 
Riera.     Of  South  Carolina. 


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470.  Ladd.     Lade/. 

Armorial.  Chippendale  ;  rough.  No  motto,  the 
name  occupying  the  motto-ribbon.  Signed,  S. 
FelwelL     Sculpt.     Of  New  Hampshire. 

471.  Lamb,      'jfohn  Lamb. 

Armorial  (  ?) .     A  gallant  soldier  of  the  Revolution. 

472.  Lardner.     Lynford  Lardner. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  Landscape.  The  shield  rests 
against  the  bole  of  an  oak,  and  around  it  are  sparse 
bushes  and  grass.  Motto,  Mediocria  firma.  Of 
Philadelphia.  Probably  the  grandson  of  the  Pro- 
vincial Councillor. 

473.  Laurens.     Edward  R.  Laurens. 

Armorial.  Belongs  to  no  particular  style.  The 
shield  is  highly  ornamented  with  scrolls  and 
flowers.  Motto,  What  is,  is  best.  Signed,  Stout 
del  et  Sculpsit.     Of  South  Carolina, 

474.  Lawrence.     J^.  Tharp  Lawrence. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Ln  cruce  salus.  An  ermine 
mantle  behind  the  shield. 

475.  Leavenworth.     Capt.  Gideon  Leavenworth. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto,  the  name  on  the 
motto-ribbon.  Very  crude  work,  resembling  the 
Elijah  Backus  plate. 

476.  Lee.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia.     (Richard  Henry  Lee?) 

477.  Lee.     Edward  Lee.     Esqr. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto,  the  name  occupying 
the  motto-ribbon.     Of  Virginia. 

478.  Lee.     Cpt.  yohn  Lee. 

A  crude  name-label,  with  a  border  suggestive  of 
nothing.     Signed,  6*.  Mc in  tire. 

479.  Lee.     Philip   Ludivell  Lee,  Esqr  of  the  Lnner  Temple 

LONDON. 

Armorial.      Chippendale.      Motto,   Non   incautus 

futii7'i.     Of  Virginia. 

480.  Leiper.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 


236  Americmi  Book-plates. 

48 1.  Lenthall.     yohn  Lenthall. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.  Signed,  Thackara.  A  large  plate,  the 
only  signed  specimen  of  this  engraver's  work. 
Very  probably  the  plate  of  John  Lenthall,  an 
Englishman  employed  by  Latrobe  on  the  public 
buildings  at  Washington,  and  a  very  valuable 
architect. 

482.  Lenox.     David  Lenox.     Philadelphia. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Auctor 
pretiosa  facit. 

483.  Lenox,     yames  Lenox. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Aucfo?-  pj-eiiosa  facit. 
The  founder  of  the  Lenox  Library,  New  York  City. 

484.  Lewis.     Joseph  S.  Leivis. 

Literary.  No  motto.  Four  large  books  in  an 
impossible  position ;  the  topmost  one  has  the 
name  engraved  upon  the  side  ;  an  ink-pot  and  two 
quills,  with  a  sprig  of  holly,  complete  the  ornamen- 
tation. A  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia 
seventy-five  years  ago. 

485.  Lewis.     Mordecai  Lezvis.     No. 

A  very  handsomely  engraved  name-label.  A  frame 
of  Chippendale  gracefulness  surrounds  the  name. 
A  canephoros  head  of  pleasant  expression  appears 
in  the  lower  edge.  A  Philadelphia  merchant. 
Born,  17S4;    died,  185 1. 

486.  Lewis.     Morgan  Leivis  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  ^^'reath,  Motto,  Courage 
sans  pel/ r.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  it  is 
undoubtedly  the  work  of  Maverick.  Soldier  and 
jurist.  Was  on  the  staff  of  General  Gates  in  the 
Revolution,  and  was  in  action  again  in  the  War  of 
1812. 

487.  LiGHTFOOT.     Philip  Lightfoot. 

Armorial.  Of  Virginia.  Tomb  at  Sandy  Point, 
dated  1784. 

488.  LiGHTFOOT.      Wm.  Lightfoot  Esqr.      Tedington.     lyjo. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     No  motto. 


Early  A^nericmi  Book-plates.      237 

489.    Linn.     Rev.  Matthias  Linn. 
Armorial. 

'490.    Lisle.     Henry  Mairriee  Lisle,  Attorney  at  Law. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Legibits 
viro.     Of  Hingham,  Mass.     Circa  iSoo 

491.  LiVERMORE.     EdniKud  St.  Loe  Livermore. 

An  engraved  name-label,  with  the  motto  on  an 
ornamental  ribbon  above,  Miseris  suceurrere  disco. 
Lawyer  of  Boston. 

492.  Livingston.     Brockholst  Livingston  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Spero  meliora. 
Son  of  Governor  William  Livingston.  Accom- 
plished scholar  and  lawyer.  Of  New  York.  Illus- 
trated in  "Curio,"  page  63. 

493.  Livingston.     Edward  Livingston. 

Landscape.  The  shield  upheld  against  a  shattered 
oak  by  a  ribbon ;  the  ship  in  distress  for  crest ; 
Spero  meliora  on  a  dainty  ribbon  among  the 
twigs.  At  the  foot  of  the  tree,  close  to  which  a 
marsh  is  seen,  a  pointer  barks  at  a  squirrel  sitting 
unconcernedly  on  a  bough  eating  acorns.  Signed, 
Maverick  Sculpt.  A  beautiful  plate.  Jurist  and 
statesman.  Son  of  Robert  R.  Illustrated  in 
"  Curio,"  page  64. 

494.  Livingston.    John  R.  Livingston. 

An  engraved  label,  the  name  being  within  an  oval 
frame. 

495.  Livingston.     Maturin  Livingston. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Spero 
meliora.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.     Of  New  York. 

496.  Livingston.     Mortimer  Livingston. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Spero  meliora. 

497.  Livingston.     Peter  R.  Livingston. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Prestat  opes  sapi- 
entia.  Signed,  N.  Hurd.  Sep.  The  whole  within 
an  oblong  frame.     Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  62. 

498.  Livingston.     Robert  L.  Livingston. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Spero  meliora. 
Crest,  a  demi-barbarian  with  a  bludgeon  raised  in 


238 


American  Book-plates. 


499- 


his  right  hand,  and  a  coiling  serpent  in  the  other. 
Illustrated  in  "  Curio,"  page  64. 
Livingston.     Rob't.  R.  Livingstoti  Esqr.  of  Cleremont. 
Armorial.      Ribbon   and   Wreath.      Motto,   Spero 
meliora.     Not  signed,  but  probably  the  work  of 
Maverick,     Illustrated  in  "  Curio,"  page  63. 


(s>c//2/a/rd  ^J^^vt/?7ja<f^€o/u 


500.  Livingston.  RoFt.  R.  Livingston.  Esqr.  Of  Clermont. 
Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  shield  rests  against  a 
broken  column ;  at  its  base  a  large  globe,  cadu- 
ceus,  scrolls,  and  vellum-bound  books.  A  garland 
of  roses  falls  across  the  shield,  and  a  view  of  the 
distant  plain  is  afforded  through  the  bushes  at  the 


Early  American  Book-plates.      22g 

side.  A  large  palm  above  droops  over  all.  Motto, 
S/>ero  vicliora.  Crest,  the  ship.  A  very  beautiful 
plate.  Eminent  lawyer.  Illustrated  in  "  Curio," 
page  63. 

501.  Livingston.      Walter  Livingston. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Spero  meliora. 
Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  the  work  of  Maverick. 
Books  and  a  lighted  lamp  among  the  ornamenta- 
tions. 

502.  Livingston.      Williani  Livingston  of  the  Middle  Temple. 

ArmoriaL  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ant  mors  aut 
vita  decora.  Born  in  Albany,  1723;  graduated 
from  Yale  at  the  head  of  his  class,  1741.  Litend- 
ing  to  go  to  London,  he  obtained  permission  to 
enter  the  Middle  Temple,  but  seems  to  have  never 
done  so.  The  book-plate  must  have  been  engraved 
about  this  time  (1742).  Statesman.  Illustrated  in 
"Curio,"  page  62. 

503.  Livingston.     Willm.  Smith  Livingston. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Spero 
meliora.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  A  peculiarly 
shaped  frame.     Illustrated  in  "  Curio,"  page  63. 

504.  Livius.     Livius. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Colendo  crescent.  Of  New 
Hampshire.     Peter  Livius  ;  same  as  following, 

505.  Livius.     Livius  Chief  J^ustice  of  Quebec. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Non  fiectere  a  vero.  The 
same  copper  as  the  above  with  the  name  changed, 
the  motto  altered,  and  an  in-escutcheon  added.  A 
Loyalist.     Chief  Justice,  1777-1786. 

506.  Livius.      George  Livius. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Illustrated 
in  "Art  Amateur,"  May,  1894. 

507.  Lloyd,     yno.  N.  Lloyd. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  No  motto.  Very  tem- 
pestuous mantling  completely  encircles  the  shield. 
An  old  family  of  Long  Island ;  the  manor  of 
Queen's  Village  was  in  their  possession  as  early  as 
1679.     Of  ^his  family  came  Dr.  James  Lloyd,  of 


240  American  Book-plates. 


Boston,  a  Loyalist,  friend  of  Sir  William  Howe, 
and  whose  estates  on  Long  Island  were  seized  by 
the  Royal  Army,  who  allowed  three  thousand  acres 
of  woodland  to  be  cut  off.  When  redress  was 
offered  upon  his  swearing  allegiance  to  England, 
Dr.  Lloyd  refused.  Name  in  fac-simile  of  autograph. 


ABRAHAM       LODGE 


508.  Llovd.      ^ohn  Nelson  Lloyd. 

Pictorial.     Urn,  festoons,  and  sprays  of  palm. 

509.  Lloyd.     Richd.  Bennett  Lloyd.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  No  crest,  and  no  motto. 
The  shield  is  oval,  and  is  held  upright  by  a  female 
clad  in  the  Greek  manner ;  an  anchor  at  her  feet. 

510.  Lodge.     Abraham  Lodge. 

Armorial.     Jacobean.     No  motto. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     241 

511.  Logan.      Charles  Logan. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Of  Phila- 
delphia ;  lived  also  in  Powhatan  County,  Va.  He 
freed  all  his  slaves  in  Virginia  upon  his  marriage. 

512.  Logan,     yaines  Logan. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto,  the  name 
occupying  the  motto-ribbon.  Books  and  a  globe 
at  the  base  as  ornamentation,  and  as  indicative  of 
the  owner's  tastes.  Of  Philadelphia.  Came  to 
this  country  at  the  suggestion  of  William  Penn.  A 
scholar  and  statesman  ;  left  his  library  to  the  pub- 
lic, which  was  the  foundation  of  the  Loganian 
Library.  His  translation  of  Cicero's  "De  Senec- 
tute"  was  the  especial  pride  of  Benjamin  Franklin's 
press.  He  printed  it  with  a  preface  by  himself. 
Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  13. 

513.  Logan.     WiUiam  Logan. 

Armorial.  Of  Philadelphia.  Librarian  of  the 
Library. 

514.  Loganian  Library.     Loganian  Library. 

Armorial.  Arms  not  the  ones  on  the  plate  of 
James  Logan,  the  donor  of  the  Library.  No  motto, 
the  name  occupying  the  motto-ribbon.  Chippen- 
dale. Started  by  James  Logan  in  1 743,  who  gave 
books  to  the  value  of  _;^iooo  and  a  building. 
Illustrated  in  *'  Curio,"  page  12. 

515.  Longbottom.     Abram  p.  Longhotfom. 

Plain  armorial.  Two  shields  of  arms  side  by  side 
under  a  large  American  eagle.  Mottoes,  Labor 
omnia  vincif,  and  Pro  rege  et  lege. 

516.  Lord.      \Villia)n  Lord's  East  Haddam. 

An  early  engraved  copper-plate ;  the  name  and 
address  only  within  an  oval  frame  of  twisted  vines. 

517.  LoRiNG.     Loring. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Not  signed, 
but  bears  some  of  the  characteristics  of  Kurd's 
work.     Undoubtedly  his. 


■:x 


242  American  Book-plates. 

518.  LOTBINIERE.     M.  le  Marquis  de  Lotbiniere. 

Armorial.  French  heraldic.  A  lion  crouches 
below  the  escutcheon,  while  eagles  scream  at  either 
side.  Motto,  Fors  et  virtus.  A  large  landowner 
in  New  York  City  at  the  beginning  of  the  century. 

519.  Low.      Cornelius  Low.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ex  necessitate. 
Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  by  Dawkins.  The 
frame  is  the  same  in  ornamentation  and  style  as 
the  Whitehead  Hick  plate. 

520.  Lowell,     yohn  Lowell. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Occasio7iem  cog- 
noscere.  Signed,  N.  Nurd.  Sep.  Jurist  and  states- 
man of  Massachusetts.     JNIember  of  Old  Congress. 

521.  Lowell,     yohfi  Lo7aell  y?: 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Occasionem  cog- 
noseere.  A  second  motto  is  given,  Deo  dirigente 
ci'esendum  est.  Signed,  Aiinin  6^  Smith  Sc. 
Founder  of  the  Lowell  Institute,  Boston.  Illus- 
trated in  "Art  Amateur,"  May,  1S94. 

522.  Lowell,     yohn  Lotcell.     yr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Mottoes  as  the  preced- 
ing. Signed,  A.  &^  S.  This  seems  to  be  a  litho- 
graph made  from  the  above. 

523.  Lowell,     yohn  Amory  Lowell. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Occasionem  cog- 
nosecre.  Very  similar  to  the  design  of  the  John 
Lowell  by  Hurd ;  evidently  copied  from  it. 

524.  Ludlow.     C a ry  Ludlow. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto.  Fide  sed  cui 
vide.  Signed,  W.  Smith  Sculp.  Somewhat  in  the 
style  of  Uawkins. 

525.  Ludlow.     Charles  Ludhnv.     A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  'Moito,  Fide  sed  cui  vide. 
Signed,  IV.  Smith.  The  arms  are  the  same  as  on 
the  John  Cooke  Ludlow.  At  the  left  a  scantily 
robed  female  is  playing  the  flute,  while  a  cupid 
holds  the  book  of  music.  The  surroundings  are 
indicative  of  a  desert. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      243 

526.  Ludlow.     Gabriel  Verplank  Ludloiv. 

Armorial.  Crest  only.  Motto,  Naturae  conven- 
ie liter  vivere. 

527.  Ludlow.     Gab:  Win:  Ludlotv. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Spero  meliora. 
Signed,  H.  D.    Sc.     (Dawkins.)     A  very  fine  plate. 

528.  Ludlow.     George  Ludlow. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Decus 
virtuti  soli.  The  festoon  of  cloth  draped  above  the 
shield  is  trimmed  with  a  string  of  laurel.  Signed, 
Ro Hi II son  Set. 

529.  Ludlow,     y^ohn  Cooke  Ludhnv. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Spero  meliora. 
Signed,  H.  D.     Sc.     (Dawkins.) 

530.  LuDWELL.     Philip   Ludtuell  of  Greeiispriiig  in   Virginia 

Esqr. 

Armorial.     Late  Jacobean,     blotto,  I pensieri  stretti 

ed  il  viso  sciolto.     Of  Virginia. 

531.  LuKENS.     yohn  Lukens. 

Armorial. 

532.  McAlish.     Armorial. 

533.  McComb.     John  AfeComb. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto.  The  plate  is  enclosed 
within  a  frame  made  of  a  festoon  of  oak  leaves 
above,  and  straight  lines  below. 

534.  McCouN.      Win.  T.  MeCoun. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Semper  paratus.  Signed, 
Rollinson.     S.     Of  New  York. 

535.  McDowall.      William  MeDozvall.     Esqr.     One  of  His 

Majtes.  Council  in  ye  Island  of  St.  Christopher  in 
America. 

An  old  armorial  plate  of  which  no  further  informa- 
tion has  been  noted. 

536.  McFarlan.     Frederick  Mc.  Parian. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  This  I'll 
defend.     Of  Pennsylvania. 


244  American  Book-plates. 

537.  McIlvaine.     Bloovifield  Mcllvaine. 

Pictorial.  An  angel  seated  among  the  clouds 
holding  a  tablet  upright  upon  her  knee,  is  writing 
upon  it  with  a  quill.  A  very  pretty  design.  Signed, 
/.  3^.  B armlet,  inv.  y.  H.  Seymour  Sc.  Lieutenant 
United  States  Navy. 

538.  McKelden.     Andreiv  JMcKelden. 

Pictorial.  The  arms  of  the  United  States  finely 
engraved  within  a  circular  frame.  Motto,  E  pluri- 
biis  unitm.  The  name  of  the  owner  written  within 
the  circle.     Signed,  Leonard  Sculpt. 

539.  McKenzie.     Kenneth  McKenzie. 

Armorial.     A  Virginia  physician. 

540.  McKenzie.      William  McKenzie.     Surgeon. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Mottoes,  Lucco  non  uro. 
The  date  lydd  is  written  on  the  copy  before  me. 

541.  McLean.     Hugh  McLean. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  INIotto,  Altera 
merces,  and  Virtus  durissima  terit.  Signed, 
Maveiick  Set.  Oak  leaves  and  branches  used 
in  the  decoration. 

542.  McMurtrie.     Henry  McMurtrie. 

Pictorial.  Landscape.  The  frame  is  oval  in  form  ; 
the  rising  sun  discloses  a  small  island  on  which  are 
five  trees  in  a  straight  row  ;  the  bank  at  the  left 
hand  also  has  a  similar  row  of  five  trees,  and  in  the 
immediate  foreground  a  few  piles  of  stone  and 
more  trees  are  seen.  The  name  is  on  a  ribbon 
under  the  picture.  Signed,  Sniither  Sculpt.  A 
physician  of  Philadelphia. 

543.  McMurtrie.     Hetiry  McMurtrie. 

Literary.  Books  are  piled  upon  a  table  ;  the  serpent 
of  /Esculapius  carries  the  motto-ribbon  on  which  are 
the  words,  Respice  finum.  Cupid  weeps  beside  a 
mortuary  urn  whose  tip  is  aflame.  An  open  book 
seems  to  have  two  words  on  the  pages.  The  first 
one  is  Rush.  The  whole  design  is  enclosed  in  a 
circle  about  which  numerous  clouds  hover.  Signed, 
Fairman  del.  Kearny  Sc.  The  Philadelphia  phy- 
sician. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      245 

544.  McTavish.     yohn  McTavish. 

Plain  armorial.    Motto,  Non  oblitus.    Of  Maryland. 

545.  Mackay.     y a /lies  Mackay.     Belfast. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  M.o\Xo,  Delectando  pari- 
terqjie  ni07iendo.  A  resident  of  Virginia  about  the 
year  1760. 

546.  Mackey.     Albert  G.  Mae  key.     M.D. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  My  might  makes  right. 
Physician  and  author  of  Charleston,  S.C. 

547.  Magill.     yohn  Magill. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Perit  lit  vivat. 
Signed,  y.  Smither  Set.     Of  Maryland. 

5 48.  Manigault.     Peter  Maiiigaiilt  of  the  Inner  Temple^  Bar- 

ister  at  Law  South  Carolina. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Prospieere  qiiani 
iilcisei.  Signed,  Yates  Feeit  Royal  Exchange. 
There  is  no  official  grant  of  these  arms ;  they 
were  engraved  in  1754;  the  crest,  an  American 
Indian,  had  not  then  been  decided  upon. 

549.  Mann,     yohn  Preston  Mann. 

Literary.  A  peculiar  out-of-door  scene,  in  which 
the  foreground  is  occupied  with  a  very  tall  case  of 
shelves  filled  with  books  ;  the  corner  post  of  the 
case  is  made  of  a  pile  of  books  carefully  arranged ; 
in  the  distance  is  seen  the  temple  of  Honor,  upon 
the  summit  of  a  hill,  the  ascent  to  which  is  rocky 
and  steep  ;  the  American  eagle  rests  upon  a  globe 
which  is  placed  upon  the  tall  pile  of  books  ;  the 
whole  design  is  enclosed  within  an  oval  border, 
which  is  decorated  with  scrolls,  etc.  The  last  name 
only  is  engraved  upon  the  plate,  the  first  ones  being 
written  in. 

550.  Mann.      The  property    of   Timothy    Mann.       Walpole. 

Oct.  —  1 8 10. 

The  name  is  printed  from  type  within  a  woodcut 
border ;  festoons  and  sprays  of  palm  compose  the 
frame,  in  the  centre  of  which,  above,  is  a  small 
circle  with  the  arms  of  the  United  States  within  it ; 
two  ink-pots  with  quills  in  them  are  on  either  side 
of  the  arms. 


246  American  Book-plates. 

551.  Manning.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

552.  March.      Charles  March. 

Plain  armorial.  VloXXo,  Fortis  et  Veritas.  Charles- 
ton, S.C.     Circa  181 9. 

553.  Marchant.     Hejiry  AIarcha?it. 

Armorial.  Chippendale,  '^loiio,  Fafria  ca>'a  carior 
libertas.  Signed,  JS.  H.  Sc.  Very  similar  to  the 
John  Marston  plate,  below  mentioned.  Attorney- 
General  of  Rhode  Island,  1770-17 — .  Member 
of  Old  Congress,  17 77-1 780  and  1 783-1 784. 

554.  Marsh.     Frederick  Marsh. 

Literary.  Identical  with  the  George  Goodwin  plate 
mentioned  above. 

555.  Marshall,     yohn  Marshall  A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ex  candore  dccus. 
Chief  Justice  United  States,  1801. 

556.  Marston.     yohn  Marston. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  N.  Hind,  Sculp.  Illustrated  in  ''  Art  Ama- 
teur," May,  1894. 

557.  Martin.     The  Honble.  yosiah  Martin  of  Antigua  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Piigna  pro  patria 
libertas. 

558.  Martin.     Luther  Martin  A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  luitium  sapientiae 
est  timor  Dei.  Inside  the  name-frame  an  open 
book  at  either  end  ;  one  labelled  Black's  Comms. 
Very  similar  to  the  Bloomfiekl  plate,  and  un- 
doubtedly by  Trenchard.  Lawyer  \  Member  of 
Old  Congress  ;   defended  Samuel  Chase. 

559.  Martin.     Thomas  Martin. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Jnitium  sapientia 
est  timor  domini.  The  same  arms  as  the  above, 
but  the  crest  different. 

560.  Mason,     yon  a  than  Mason  yunr. 

Simply  the  name  engraved  within  a  flourish.  One 
of  the  witnesses  of  the  Boston  Massacre.  The 
book  from  which  the  copy  before  me  was  taken 


Early  American  Book-plates.      247 

had  the  autograph  of  the  owner  in  it  and  the  date, 
1774.     Eminent  lawyer  and  statesman. 

561.  Massachusetts.    Libraij  of  the  General  Court.    Sigillum 

Reipublicae  Massachusettensis. 
The  shield  of  the  State,  surrounded  by  the  motto 
of  the  State,  Ense  petit  placidain  sub  hbertate 
quietem,  is  placed  within  the  circular  frame  which 
bears  the  name.  Above,  a  pile  of  three  books, 
similar  to  those  on  the  Harvard  plate  by  Hurd,  and 
a  globe  upon  them  stand  in  lieu  of  a  crest ;  a  blaze 
of  glory  flashes  out  from  these  symbols  of  learning. 

562.  Massachusetts.     This  Book  is  the  Property  of  the  His- 

torical Society,  Established  in  Boston.    17QO. 
A  printed  label  with  ornamental  type  border. 

563.  Massachuseits.     Property  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 

Society,  incorporated  November  1781. 
A  large  curtain,  similar  to  that  in  the  Harvard  Col- 
lege plate  by  Hurd,  is  upheld  by  festoons  ;  this  is 
left  blank  for  the  recording  of  donors'  names. 
Above  this  an  oval  medallion  presents  a  picture  of 
the  efficacy  of  Nature's  cures ;  a  wounded  stag 
with  the  arrow  still  in  his  side  has  come  to  yEscula- 
pius  for  healing.  He,  in  rough  garb,  with  the 
serpent  entwined  around  his  rod,  has  directed  the 
distressed  animal  to  an  herb,  which  he  is  lying 
down  to  eat.  A  motto,  Natura  duces,  is  seen 
over  the  picture.     Signed,  Callender  Sc. 

564.  Massachusetts.     The  Eirst  State  Normal  School. 

The  arms  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  surrounded 
by  an  oval  garter,  on  which  the  name  is  given.  In 
the  clouds  above  the  motto  appears,  Live  to  truth. 

565.  Masterton.     Peter  Mas ter ton. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Cogi  posse 
negat.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  Thistles  used  in 
the  decoration. 

566.  Matthew.       William  Matthew  Esqr.  Lt.    Genl.  of  His 

Maftes.  Leeward  Carribee  Islands  ;  and  Lt.  Govnr. 

of  St.  Christopher  in  America. 

An   old   armorial    plate ;    no   further    information 

obtainable. 


248  American  Book-plates. 

567.  Matthews.     Wm.  Mattheius  of  Philada.  N". 

A  copper- plate  engraving;  no  design,  except  a 
border  of  scrolls  and  flourishes  enclosing  the  in- 
scription. 

568.  Mayo,     yohn  Mayo. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Virtus  sola  no- 
bilitate.     Mantling  about  the  helmet. 

569.  Maxcy.      Virgil  Maxcy. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Niillus  in  verba.  Of  Mary- 
land. 

570.  Maxwell.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Maxwell  arms  and  motto.  The  arms 
are  enclosed  in  an  oval  frame  studded  with  pearls, 
and  a  profusion  of  flowers  is  used  in  the  ornamen- 
tation, which  comes  as  near  to  the  Ribbon  and 
Wreath  style  as  to  any.  Motto,  Riviresco.  Signed, 
Maverick,  Sculpt. 

571.  Mercer.     HugJi  Mercer. 

Armorial.  Of  Virginia.  A  gallant  General  of  the 
Revolution  ;  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Princeton, 
at  which  the  daring  plan  of  crossing  the  river  was 
undertaken  and  carried  out  upon  his  suggestion, 

572.  Mercer.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Rich  mantling  encompassing  the  whole 
shield.  Motto,  Per  varios  casus.  John  Mercer  of 
Marlboro,  near  Fredericksburg ;  a  witness  to  the 
will  of  Mary  Washington. 

573.  Meredith,     jf^onathan  Meredith  yuur. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Integra 
mens  augustissima  possessio.  This  plate  is  not 
signed,  but  is  apparently  the  work  of  Maverick. 

574.  Middleton.      yohn  Izard  Middleton. 

Armorial.  Born  at  Middleton-Place-on-the-Ashley, 
near  Charleston,  S.C.,  1785  ;  died,  1849.  Author; 
intimate  in  the  circles  of  Alesdames  De  Stael  and 
R6camier. 

575.  Middleton.     Peter  Middleton.     M.D. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Signed,  J.  Lends  Sc. 
IMantling   profuse    and    reaching   well    down    the 


Early  American  Book-plates.     249 

shield.     Motto,   For/is  6^  fidus.     Of  New  York. 
Born  in  Scotland.     Made  the  first  dissection   on 
record  in  America. 
576.    Miller.     Ferdinand  U.  Miller. 

Literary.  Very  similar  to  the  Thomas  Robbins  plate. 

Kin    Miller       S  B ruder  Jaebez.     178-. 

-'''■  '      \Petrus  Heremit.     1791. 

These  plates,  simple  printed  labels,  were  the  prop- 
erty of  J.  Peter  Miller,  the  Prior  of  the  Convent  at 
Ephrata,  Penn. 

578.  MiLNER.    James  Milner. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Of  Virginia. 

579.  MiNOT.     Minot. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  Rough  mantling  all 
about  the  shield.  Motto,  Ad  astra  per  aspera. 
George  Richard  Minot,  historian,  Boston. 

580.  Minot.     Minot. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  Mantling  all  about  the 
shield.  Motto,  Ad  astra  per  aspera.  A  better 
plate  than  the  above.  The  copy  before  me  has  an 
»S  written  before  the  name.     Of  Massachusetts. 

581.  MiNTURN.      William  Mintiirn. 

Plain  armorial.  An  elaborate  frame,  with  mantling 
reaching  far  down  the  sides.  Motto,  Esse  potius 
quam  haberi. 

582.  Mitchell.     A.  Mitchell  Ejus  Liber. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  An  early  settler  of  Ches- 
ter County,  Penn. 

583.  Mitchell.    Jacobiim  Whitely  Mitchell. 

Literary.     The  central  panel  of  this  design  bears 
the  name  and  the  following  lines :  — 
Hujus  si  capias  dominum 
Cognoscere  libri,  si  infra, 
Inspicida  no)nen  habebis  ibi. 
At  the  left  shelves  of  books  are  seen,  and  at  the 
right  what  seems  to  be  a  heavy  press.     Above,  on 
a  bracket,  are  grouped  several  implements  of  music, 
art,  etc.    This  is  a  rude  woodcut. 


250  American  Book-plates. 

584.  Moat.     Horatio  Shepheard  Moat. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Nil  des- 
perandum.     Signed,  Rollinson. 

585.  Moore.     Lambert  Moore.  Escp-. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Virtus  interrita 
pergit.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  is  unmistak- 
ably the  work  of  Dawkins.  The  half-draped  female 
on  the  left  side  is  the  same  as  that  on  the  White- 
head Hicks  plate,  and  the  nuisic-making  shepherd 
on  the  right  is  reversed  from  the  Benjamin  Kissam 
plate. 

586.  Moore.     Nathl.  F.  Moore. 

Armorial.  Ril)bon  and  Wreath.  No  motto. 
Signed,  P.  Maverick.  Of  New  York.  President 
of  Columbia  College,  1 842-1 849. 

5  8  7.   Moore.     Saml.  W.  Moore. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Non  est  vivere  sed  vale7-e 
vita.     Of  New  York, 

588.  MoREAU.    John  B.  Moreaii. 

Literary.  The  name  on  an  open  book,  floating  in 
the  clouds. 

589.  Morgan.    Join}  Morgan.     M.D.     Philadelphia. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  lAoWo,  Fam  a  praestante 
praestantior  virtus.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  but 
is  very  much  in  the  style  of  Dawkins'  work.  A 
cupid  sits  on  a  flourish  of  the  decoration  and  pats 
a  large  bust  on  its  crown,  presumably  representing 
sculpture.  At  the  other  side  two  cupids  discuss 
astronomical  problems  with  a  globe  for  reference. 
One  of  these  little  fellows  is  an  African  evidently. 
Eminent  physician  educated  abroad.  One  of  the 
founders  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society, 
1769. 

590.  Morong.     Thomas  Morong. 

Literary.  A  pile  of  books,  some  open,  some  closed, 
lies  at  the  foot  of  a  cross,  above  which  the  crown  is 
seen  in  glory.  A  ribbon  runs  over  the  face  of  one 
book,  bearing  the  motto,  Sohi  saliis  servire  Deo.  A 
line  of  Hebrew  is  given  across  the  open  book. 


Early  Aineyicaii  Book-plates.     251 

591.  Morris.     Gouverneur  Morris. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Tandem  vincitiir. 
One  fold  of  the  ribbon  empty,  as  if  possibly  made 
for  a  larger  motto ;  a  stock  pattern.  This  is  the 
same  copper  as  the  Lewis  Morris  mentioned  below, 
with  the  first  name  changed.  Statesman  and  orator. 
Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur,"  February,  1894. 

592.  Morris.    /.  M. 

Crest  only.     (Morris  of  Philadelphia.) 

593.  Morris.    James  Morris. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  A  very 
handsome  plate,  rich  in  appearance,  and  full  of  dec- 
orative features.  Open  books,  globe,  and  scrolls  at 
the  base  indicate  a  literary  taste.  The  sides  of  the 
frame  are  embellished  with  the  caduceus  and  a 
cornucopia  of  fruit.     Of  New  York. 

594.  Morris.     Lewis  Morris  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Tandem  vincitiir. 
Father  of  Gouverneur  Morris. 

595.  Morris.     Roger  Morris. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  No  motto.  The 
mantling  is  present,  very  straight  and  stiff;  the 
shell-work  is  prominent,  and  the  whole  design  is 
rather  formal  than  graceful.  Illustrated  in  "  Curio," 
page  112. 

596.  Morris.     William  Morris. 

An  engraved  label,  the  name  being  within  an  oval 
frame  of  laurel  leaves.     Signed,  Shallus  Sculpt. 

597.  Morrison.    John  Morrison.     Portland.     U.S.America. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Dum  spiro  spero. 
A  very  neat  design.  The  sprays  which  are  crossed 
beneath  the  shield  are  connected  above  by  a  row 
of  thirteen  stars. 

598.  Murray.    James  Murray. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Mens  sibi  con- 
scia  recti.     Of  Virginia. 

599.  Murray,     y^ohn  Murray. 

Armorial.     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     No  motto. 


252  American  Book-plates. 

600.  Murray.     The  Revd.  J'ohn  Mim-ay. 

Armorial  in  form,  but  no  true  arms  shown.  The 
motto,  Alalo  mori  quam  foedari,  is  on  a  circular 
band  which  encloses  a  space,  divided  into  quarters, 
colored  heraldically  and  charged  with  absurd 
charges ;  in  the  first  quarter,  which  is  tinctured  az., 
a  shield  with  a  helmet  above  is  supported  by  a  row 
of  fence  posts  with  cinquefoils  between  them  ;  the 
second,  which  is  tinctured  ar.,  is  divided  per 
saltire,  and  is  charged  with  a  powder-horn,  a 
crescent  and  stars,  an  ox-bow,  and  a  crown;  the 
third,  which  is  tinctured  gu.,  has  Gabriel  and 
Apollyon  in  combat,  with  a  crown  above  them  ;  the 
fourth,  which  is  tinctured  az.,  has  the  dove  with  the 
olive  branch  on  a  peculiar  cross  which  holds  thirteen 
spots  (for  lack  of  a  better  term)  ;  disposed  about 
are  three  flaming  hearts.  This  whole  design  is 
enclosed  in  a  large  shield  ;  the  crest  is  a  man  on 
a  prancing  steed,  carrying  a  tomahawk ;  the  sup- 
porters are  a  nude  Indian  with  a  wreath  about  his 
loins,  his  feet  chained,  and  the  end  of  the  chain 
and  a  shield  in  his  hands  ;  and  a  crowned  lion  with 
three  stars  on  its  body.  Motto,  under  all,  yinicfa 
virtiiie  fides.  This  plate  is  not  signed.  ^^■  hat  a 
pity  !  Very  probably  the  plate  of  the  Father  of 
American  Universalism,  who  it  is  said  was  greeted 
with  a  shower  of  stones  when  he  first  tried  to 
preach  in  Boston. 

601.  Murray,     yoseph  Murray. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  INIotto,  Virtute  fidcque. 
Not  signed,  but  evidently  by  Maverick. 

602.  Murray.     Murray  Earl  of  Dunmore. 

Armorial.  Supporters,  mantling,  and  crown. 
Motto,  Furih  —  Fortune.  John  Murray,  fourth 
Earl.  Made  Governor  of  New  York,  1770;  and 
of  Virginia,  1771. 

603.  Musgrave.     Richaj'd  Musgrave. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Sans  changer.  On  the 
copy  before  me  is  wx'iiitn,  0/  New  Haveti  Qonnecti- 
cut. 


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604.  Nelson.     The  arms  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  George  Nelson  Esq. 

Ld.  Mayor. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Of  Vir- 
ginia. 

605.  Newberry.     Roger  Newberry's  Property. 

An  engraved  label  with  a  festoon  above,  and  the 
following  motto  below  :  — 

To  Virtue  &=  Science  attend, 
And  Truth  &=  Justice  befriend. 

606.  Newburyport.     Newb^iryport  Athenceum. 

Pictorial.  A  large  American  eagle  about  to  rise 
from  a  pile  of  rocks  bear§  a  ribbon  in  his  beak  with 
the  name  upon  it. 


254  American  Book-plates. 

607.  Newell.     T'imothy  Newell. 

Military.  The  name  is  given  within  a  frame,  behind 
which  are  seen  a  various  assortment  of  military 
implements,  —  flags,  swords,  guns,  drums,  trumpets, 
etc.  Signed,  /.  Thomas  print.  This  is  a  woodcut, 
and  was  printed  by  Isaiah  Thomas,  the  early 
printer  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

608.  Newport,  R.I.     Redtvood  Library.     Ncivport.     R.I. 

Pictorial.  A  large  picture  of  the  library  building. 
Signed,  Drawn  by  y^ames  Skvens  Civil  Engr. 
Engd.  by  IV.  D.  Terry  Nezoport.  The  library  used 
other  smaller  plates,  a  simple  label,  and  also 
another  view  of  the  building  with  the  rules  govern- 
ing the  use  of  volumes  printed  with  it. 

609.  Newton.     Lucretia  E.  Newton. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Cognosce 
occasioneni.  This  is  the  plate  of  John  C.  Williams, 
by  Hurd,  with  the  name  and  signature  erased,  and 
the  present  name  printed  from  type  under  the 
shield.     An  unwarrantable  proceeding. 

610.  New  York.     Apprentices^  Libraiy. 

A  pictorial  plate  of  great  beauty.  In  the  immediate 
foreground  an  aged  man,  clad  in  classic  garb,  accosts 
two  youths  who  have  evidently  but  just  risen,  at  his 
approach,  from  a  moss-covered  rock  on  which  they 
had  been  studying,  if  the  scattered  books  are  an 
indication  :  with  uplifted  hand,  the  old  man  directs 
them  to  the  temple  of  knowledge,  which  can  be  seen 
in  the  distance  crowning  the  summit  of  a  lofty  hill  : 
at  the  foot  of  the  declivity  the  spires  and  houses  of 
a  village  can  be  discerned  :  between  it  and  the 
place  of  meeting  a  broad  expanse  of  water  stretches  : 
a  beehive  at  hand  indicates  activity,  and  the  broken 
column  behind  the  preceptor  is  a  link  connecting 
classic  history  with  present  time.  Above  the  pic- 
ture the  muscular  arm  holds  the  hammer,  and  oak 
branches  are  about  it.     Signed,  A.  Anderson.  Sc. 

611.  New  York.     The  Property  of  the  New  York   College  of 

Pharmacy. 

An  oblong  name-label,  with  flourishes.     Above,  a 


Early  American  Book-plates.     255 

crucible  is  placed,  with  the  rays  of  the  sun  spreading 
out  behind  it.     Signed,  RoUinson  Sc.     New  York. 

612.  New  York.    The  Property  of  tlie  College  of  Physicians  a7id 

Surgeons  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Neza  York. 
An  oblong  printed  label  with  type  border.  This 
college  was  established  in  1807,  and  is  now  a  part 
of  Columbia  College. 

613.  New  York.     New  York  Society  Library. 

This  plate  is  armorial  in  form,  but  presents  no  real 
arms.  The  central  frame,  of  Chippendale  design, 
contains  four  quarterings,  which  represent  the  arts 
of  Astronomy,  Navigation,  Geography,  Mathematics, 
and  Literature ;  Religion  also  is  represented. 
Mercury  and  Minerva  support  the  frame,  standing 
upon  the  ribbon  which  bears  the  name  ;  above  the 
frame  sits  Apollo  with  his  broad  back  to  the  full- 
shining  sun ;  clouds  which  resemble  toy  balloons 
rise  about  him.  Beneath  the  frame  appear  the 
outskirts  of  a  city,  with  spires  and  towers  visible  ; 
directly  under  this  is  the  word  Athenia  in  Greek 
(presumably  to  suggest  that  New  York  City  was 
the  modern  Athens) ;  a  closed  chest  with  a  lighted 
candle  upon  it  has  these  words  on  it,  sed  in  cande- 
labi'o,  and  an  open  book  bears  across  its  face  the 
motto,  Nosce  teipsinn.  Signed,  E.  GaUaudet. 
Sc.  Illustrated  in  "  Ex  Libris  Journal,"  Vol.  Ill, 
page  141. 

614.  New  York.     New  York  Society  Library. 

Pictorial.  The  interior  of  the  library  is  shown ; 
Minerva,  helmeted,  and  with  spear  resting  against 
her  arm,  leans  upon  a  pillar ;  before  her,  in 
obeisance,  an  American  Indian,  half  draped,  with 
tomahawk  under  his  foot,  receives  from  the  hand 
of  the  gracious  goddess  a  book.  The  well-filled 
shelves  of  the  library  are  disclosed  behind  them,  as 
the  drawn  curtain,  upheld  by  cords,  lets  the  sun- 
light stream  in.  This  view  is  contained  within  an 
oval  frame  which  rests  upon  a  pedestal  bearing  on 
its  face  the  name  of  the  library  ;  the  whole  is  filled 
out   to   the  edges  of  the  plate  by  a  background 


256  American  Book-plates. 

representing  a  brick  wall.  Signed,  Engd.  by  P.  R. 
Maverick  6§  Liberty  Street.  A  large  painting  of 
this  design  hangs  in  the  library  at  present. 

615.  New  York.     New  York  Society  Library. 

Allegorical.  Minerva,  just  alighted  from  the  clouds, 
with  garments  somewhat  displaced  by  her  flight 
through  the  air,  and  with  clouds  still  about  her, 
finds  an  Indian  waiting  to  receive  the  volume 
she  holds  out  to  him  ;  as  he  lays  hold  of  it  he 
seems  to  be  offering  his  tomahawk  in  exchange. 
The  shelves  of  the  hbrary  are  seen  behind  them, 
and  in  the  gable  the  motto,  Emollit  mores,  is 
painted.  The  oval  frame  enclosing  this  scene  is 
upheld  by  ribbon  and  festoons,  branches  of  oak  are 
crossed  beneath,  and  the  plate  is  signed,  Maverick, 
Set.     Crozon  Street. 

616.  New  York.     Nezu  York  Typographical  Society. 

Allegorical.  A  picture  of  Franklin's  press  with  the 
American  flag  and  a  liberty  pole  crossed  before  it ; 
above,  a  large  eagle  with  a  medallion  of  Franklin 
depending  from  his  beak.  Not  signed,  but  at- 
tributed to  Anderson. 

617.  N ORRIS.      George  IV.  Nor r is. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  The  same  copper  as  the 
Isaac  N orris,  with  the  name  changed.  Signed, 
W.  G.  M. 

618.  NoRRiS.     Isaac  Norris. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed, 
Jas.  Turner  Sc.  Of  Philadelphia.  Prominent 
statesman.  He  directed  the  placing  of  the 
prophetic  inscription  upon  the  old  Liberty  Bell. 
His  library  went  to  the  Dickinson  College.  Illus- 
trated in  "Art  Amateur,"  February,  1894. 

619.  North  Carolina.     This  book  is  the  gift  of  ......  to 

the  University  of  North  Carolina.     Anno  Dom. 
These  words  appear  within  a  frame  of  Chippendale 
ornamentation.     Several  books  disposed  about  give 
a   literary   flavor   to   what   is   otherwise    a   rather 
meaningless  design. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     257 

620.  Ogden.     Lewis  Morris  Ogden. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath,  Motto,  Et  si 
OS  fen  do  non  jacta.     Signed,  P.  Maverick  Sc  1801. 

621.  Ogden.     (Anonymous.)     Tiie  Ogden  arms. 

Chippendale.  Moiio,  Et  si  osiendo  non  Jacto.  Of 
New  Jersey. 

622.  Olcott.     George  Olcott. 

Literary.  Very  nearly  the  same  as  the  George 
Goodwin  and  the  Frederick  Marsh. 

623.  Olmsted.     Charles  H.  Olmsted. 

Pictorial.  The  beehive  surrounded  by  flowers. 
Motto,  Non  sibi  sed  aliis.  The  whole  design 
enclosed  in  foliated  scrolls. 

624.  Olmsted.     H.  B.  Olmsted. 

Pictorial.     A  beehive  beneath  low  bushes. 

625.  Oliver.     Andreyev  Oliver. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Attributed  to  Hurd. 
Motto,  Pax  quaeritur  hello.  Of  Massachusetts. 
Colonial  statesman.  Distributer  of  stamps  under 
Hutchinson. 

626.  Orphan  Asylum.     Orphan  Asylum. 

Pictorial.  A  beautiful  little  picture  of  the  Christ 
blessing  the  little  ones.  The  line.  Forasmuch  as  ye 
did  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of  these  ye  did  it  unto  me, 
is  given  under'  the  vignette.  Signed,  L.  Simond 
del.     Seney,  Sc. 

627.  Osborne.     Peter  Osborne. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Of  Phila- 
delphia. Master  of  ship  "  Pennsylvania  Packet," 
sailing  between  Philadelphia  and  England.  Lost  in 
a  gale  in  September,  1775. 

628.  Osborne.     Samuel  Osborne. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.  Signed,  N.  Hurd.  Sep.  Of  Boston. 
Brother  of  Captain  Jeremiah  Osborne,  who  died 
July  25th,  1768,  on  his  passage  from  Isle  of  May  to 
Newport.  The  only  copy  of  this  plate  known  to 
me  is  in  the  Mauran-Deats  collection,  and  was 
taken  by  Mr.  Mauran  from  a  folio  ledger  of  X764. 


258  American  Book-plates. 

629.  Otis.     Harrison  Gray  Otis. 

Crest  only.  No  motto.  A  graceful  festoon  on 
either  side  of  the  crest.  Of  Massachusetts.  States- 
man and  orator. 

630.  Otis,     ya/ncs  Otis.     Feby  ijyj. 

Plain  name-label,  belonging  to  the  orator  and 
patriot  of  Massachusetts. 

631.  Otis,      "yames  Otis,  junr's  BOOK. 

A  large  name-label  with  the  name  in  big  type,  with 
the  request,  Please  return  this  zuitli  care.  An 
ornamental  type  border. 

632.  Pace.     Henry  Pace. 

The  only  information  obtainable  concerning  this 
plate  is  the  solitary  fact  that  it  is  the  work  of  Hnrd. 
It  is  given  in  Warren's  "First  List  of  English 
Engravers." 

633.  Page.     Francis  Page  of  the  Inner  Temple  Esqr.     17OJ. 

Early  English.  Full  mantling  envelopes  the  shield. 
Motto-ribbon  empty.     Of  Virginia. 

634.  Page.     The  Property  of  Samuel  Page. 

A  frame  of  Chippendale  decoration  enclosing 
simply  the  name.     Resembles  the  work  of  Hurd. 

635.  Paine. 

A  pictorial  plate  of  the  celebrated  political  and 
deistical  writer,  Thomas  Paine,  is  said  to  be  known. 
Copied  from  a  tail-piece  in  the  "  Gentleman's 
Magazine." 

636.  Panton.     Frans.  Panton. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Meliora  spero. 
Of  New  York.  A  hair-dresser.  Had  no  right 
to  the  arms.  Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  by 
Maverick. 

637.  Panton.     Francis  Panton  yunr. 

Landscape.  A  very  peculiar  design.  The  shield 
is  borne  by  two  ducks,  who  have  each  an  end  of  a 
ribbon  in  their  bills,  the  shield  being  upheld  by  it 
over  a  stream  ;  mountains  in  the  background,  each 


Early  Aniericajt  Book-plates.      259 


having  one  tree  on  its  peak  ;  ducks  are  swimming 
in  the  marsh,  and  four  men  in  a  boat  seem  in  no 
hurry  to  get  anywhere.  Motto,  Spes  tneliora. 
Signed,  Maverick  Sep.     Of  New  York. 


63S.    Parke,     yohn  Parke.     Esqr.     A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Terra  aiit  mari. 
Signed,  /.  6'.  Sculp.  This  was  engraved  by 
Skinner,  the  famous  engraver  of  Bath. 

639.  Parker.     B.  Parker. 

Armorial.     Jacobean.     Motto,  Aiide  fieri  jiistum. 

640.  Parker,      'panics  Parker.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Cave.  A 
very  handsome  plate. 


26o 


American  Book-plates. 


641.    Parker.     Jas.  Parker. 

Pictorial.  Landscape.  In  the  immediate  fore- 
ground a  group  of  laborers  are  discussing  the  first 
railroad  train,  which  is  passing  at  a  safe  distance ; 
'  the  old-fashioned  engine  and  car  are  moving  to  the 
left  of  the  picture  ;  behind,  mountains,  and  lakes  with 
shipping,  and  a  distant  village  are  seen.  A  very 
elaborate  border  encloses  the  scene. 


642.    Parker.     Samuel  Parker'' s.     No. 

Pictorial.  Clio,  the  Muse  of  history,  sits  upon  a 
bank  of  earth  on  which  her  name  is  given,  under 
the  spreading  branches  of  a  tree ;  a  youth  on 
bended  knee  receives  from  her  fair  hand  a  volume  ; 
other  books  and  a  lyre  would  indicate  that  the 
Muse  had  further  gifts  to  distribute,  or  was  enjoying 
a   stay  at  this  place.     In   the   dim   distance  rises 


Early  American  Book-plates.      261 

the  spire  of  the  school,  over  which  wheels  an  arrow 
of  wild  ducks.     Of  Roxbury,  Mass. 

643.  Parkman.     yolui  Parkman,  BOSTON. 

Pictorial.  A  large  scroll  is  laid  over  a  low  bush, 
which  it  almost  hides  from  view,  and  on  this  the 
name  is  printed.  This  is  a  woodcut  border,  with 
the  name  printed  from  type  within  it.  Signed  (cut 
in  the  wood),  Russell  and  Cutler prijiters. 

644.  Parsons.     Gorham  Parsojis. 

A  very  pretty  name-label ;  engraved  on  copper. 
The  name,  with  appropriate  flourishes,  is  enclosed 
within  an  oval  wreath,  festooned  above,  and  with  a 
cherub's  face  among  the  flowers. 

645.  Parsons.     William  Parsons. 

Name-label ;  engraved.  Name  in  an  oval  frame  and 
festooned  above  with  flowers. 

646.  Pasley.      William  Pasley. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Be  sure. 
The  thistle  and  rose  used  in  the  ornamentation. 
Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  by  Maverick.  Of 
New  York. 

647.  Paulding,     y.  K.  Paulding. 

Armorial  in  form,  although  no  real  arms  are  shown. 
Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Fidelity.  The  design 
of  this  plate  is  from  the  "  Captor's  Medal."  An 
ancestor  of  the  owner  of  this  plate  was  the  principal 
captor  of  Major  Andr6.  A  fine  estate  of  the 
Pauldings'  lies  on  the  Hudson  River,  with  a  castel- 
lated mansion  of  white  marble,  in  which  the 
notable  Ubrary  was  housed.  Author  and  politi- 
cian. 

648.  Paulding.     W.  Paulding. 

Armorial.     Signed  by  Maverick. 

649.  Peirson.     a.  L.  Peirson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreaih.  Motto,  Consilio 
manuque.  Signed,  An?iin  cr"  Smith  Sc.  Of 
Massachusetts. 


262  American  Book-plates. 

650.  Pease.     Lewis  Pease. 

The  PR  OPERTY  of  the  RE  V 

L   ong  may  you  live  to  spread  a  Saviour's  name  : 
E    ach  day  be  hallow' d  by  a  serious  fj-ame. 
W   isdom  assigfis  the  task  —  His  call  obey  : 
I    11  fear  a?id  meekness,  point  the  narrow  way  : 
S   trong  a?-e  your  foes,  but  Christ  is  strong  as  they. 

P   ursue  with  pious  zeal  th'  road  that  Jesus  trod, 
E    7force  his  truths  —  Exalt  a  Saviour's  blood  : 
A    ngelic  spirits  wait  to  guide  you  home, 
S    ustain  the  cross  —  sheiv  Men  their  certain  doom, 
E    7isnar'd  by  Sin  a  fatal  end  must  come. 

J h     B  .  ..n. 

The  above  verse  is  printed  from  type  and  enclosed 
in  a  border  of  ornamental  type. 

651.  Pease.      Oliver  Pease,  Owner. 

Pictorial.  Motto,  Read  and  return.  Of  Sufifield, 
Conn.  A  physician.  Date  probably  about  1800. 
Very  similar  to  the  Sally  King,  which  see  for  a 
description. 

652.  Pease.     Oliver  Pease,  Owner. 

Pictorial.  Motto,  Read  and  return.  A  variety  of 
the  above,  in  which  but  one-half  of  the  compass  is 
shown,  and  a  tessellated  floor  is  laid  under  the 
pillars. 

653.  Pell.      William  F.  Pell. 

Crest  only.     Motto,  Deus  amici  et  nos. 

654.  Penn.     Edmd.  Penn. 

Pictorial.  A  number  of  books  rest  upon  a  shelf; 
with  them,  an  hour-glass,  a  sickle,  and  two  sheaves 
of  wheat ;  a  wreath  of  oak  leaves  and  palm  is 
erected  above  them,  and  the  name  is  given  upon  a 
scroll  which  falls  over  the  edge  of  the  shelf.  Signed, 
T.  Baddick. 

655.  Penn.     Thomas  Pen7i  of  Stoke  Pogeis  in  the  Count)'  of 

Bucks  First  Proprietor  of  Pensilvania. 
Early  English.    Arms  and  motto  as  in  the  succeed- 
ing plate,  that  of  his  father.     Illustrated  in  "  Curio," 
page  14. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      263 

656.    Penn.      William  Penn  Esqr  Proprietor  of  Pennsylvania. 

Armorial.  Early  English.  Full  mantling  envelop- 
ing the  whole  shield.  Motto,  Dum  clavuin  teneam. 
Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  13. 


657.  Penn.     (Anonymous.)     Penn  arms. 

Supposed  to  be  the  plate  of  Thomas  Penn,  the  son 
of  William.  The  volume  in  which  the  only  copy 
of  this  plate  has  been  seen  has  the  autograph  of 
J.  Logan,  and  the  statement  that  the  book  was 
given  to  him  by  Thomas  Penn.  The  William  Penn 
plate  is  also  in  the  book. 

658.  Pennington.     Pennington. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Vinci t  amor  patriae.  Of 
Pennsylvania. 


OF  THE 

I^NIVERSITY 


264  A7nerican  Book-plates. 

659.  Pennington,     Edward  Pennington. 

Name-label;  engraved.  Festoon  above,  and  sprays 
of  palm  and  grape-vine  below. 

660.  Pennington.     Edward  Pennington.     Philadelphia. 

Pictorial.  A  reservoir,  from  which  the  water  is 
escaping,  is  overshadowed  by  palms  of  some  kind. 
The  significance  of  this  design  is  mysterious. 
Signed,  J^.  y.  Plocher.     Sc. 

661.  Pennington.     T.  H.  Pennington. 

The  name  is  printed  from  type  within  a  circular 
frame  which  is  engraved.  The  peculiarity  of  the 
plate  is  that  after  the  abbreviation  No.  for  the 
number  of  the  volume,  the  word  Plates  is  given. 
Whether  this  was  to  be  erased  in  volumes  which 
were  not  illustrated,  or  the  number  of  illustrations 
was  to  be  given  in  those  which  had  them,  is  hard 
to  say. 

662.  Pennsylvania.     The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Armorial.  The  arms  of  WilHam  Penn  impaling 
those  of  the  state.     Motto,  Diini  clavuni.  teneam. 

663.  Pennsylvanu.     The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

A  very  handsome  steel  engraving  of  the  coat-of- 
arms  of  the  state  of  Pennsylvania.  Motto,  Vir- 
tue, Liberty  and  Independence.  Another  variety  of 
this  plate  is  intended  as  a  gift-plate. 

664.  Pepperell.     (Anonymous.)     Sir  William  Pepperell. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Virtute  patria 
tuemini.  A  beautiful  plate.  On  a  ribbon  at  the 
very  top,  Peperi.  William  P.  Sparhawk,  grandson 
of  the  first  Sir  William  Pepperell,  assumed  his  name 
and  was  created  a  baronet,  Oct.  29,  1774.  This 
was  undoubtedly  his  plate.  The  vast  estates  of  the 
family  were  confiscated  in  1778,  as  they  were 
Loyalists.  The  crown  allowed  five  hundred  pounds 
to  Sir  William. 

665.  Perkins.     Thomas  Handasyd  Perkins. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto.  A 
prominent  merchant  of  Boston.     Born,  1765. 


Early  Americmi  Book-plates.      265 

666.  Petigru.     yamcs  Louis  Pctigni. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Verite  sans  peur.  Promi- 
nent lawyer  of  Charleston,  S.C.  Born,  1 7S9  ;  died, 
1863. 

667.  Philadelphla..     Approitices  Libraij  Co.  of  Philada. 

A  group  of  implements  indicative  of  the  work  done 
by  the  patrons  of  the  Library.  On  a  panel  of  a 
desk  are  the  words,  Instituted  1820 ;  below  this. 
Science,  Art,  Virtue.  An  open  book  upon  the 
desk  displays  these  words,  Take  fast  hold  of  instruc- 
tion let  her  not  go  for  she  is  thy  life.  Provei-bs.  Ch.  i . 
ver.  17. 

668.  Philadelphia.      Apprentices  Library  Company  of  Phi  la. 

Instituted  1820.  Opened  for  girls  1842. 
This  plate  is  a  little  later  than  the  former,  and  the 
scene  is  shifted  from  the  class-room  to  the  forest : 
here  by  the  running  brook,  overshadowed  by  the 
pines  and  oaks  of  the  forest,  a  scroll  is  found  upon 
a  rock  bearing  the  same  quotation  from  Proverbs 
that  appears  upon  the  preceding  nlate.  This  is  a 
woodcut  very  much  in  the  style  of  Anderson. 

669.  Philadelphia.     The  Carpenters  Company  of  Philadelphia, 

1724.  Armorial  in  form.  On  the  shield  a  square 
is  used  as  a  chevron,  and  is  placed  between  three 
pairs  of  dividers.  No  tinctures.  The  full  sun 
shines  powerfully  from  above. 

670.  Philadelphia.     The  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia. 

The  name  printed  from  type  within  a  border  made 
up  of  ornamental  type.  Motto,  Communiter  bona 
profundcre  Deoruni  est.  Signed,  {Printed  by 
Zachariah  Paulson  jun.  No  106  Chestnut-street. 
May.     1 801). 

671.  Philipse.     Frederik  Philipse.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  The  shield  is 
backed  by  a  brick  wall,  the  foliations  are  shell-lined, 
and  the  upturned  shell  is  in  place  under  the  shield. 
Of  New  York.     Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  iii. 

672.  Phillips.     Dinwiddle  B.  Phillips. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Ducit  amor  patriae.  Of 
Virginia. 


266  A  in  eric  an  Book-plates. 

673.  Phillips.     Samuel  Phillips  His  Book  i-jo"/. 

Name-label,  with  ornamental  type  border.  Grand- 
father of  the  founder  of  the  Academy  at  Andover 
and  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences 
at  Boston.     Born  at  Salem,  1690. 

674.  Phillips  Academy.      ///    iisum    Academiae     Phillipsiae 

Exoniensis. 

Armorial.  (Phillips  arms.)  Chippendale.  This 
plate  is  not  signed,  but  is  very  similar  to  the 
Holyoke  plate  by  Hurd,  and  is  undoubtedly  his 
work.  INIotto,  Pia  mente  studeatur.  Phillips 
Academy  of  Andover,  Mass. 

675.  Phillips.     This  plate  was  used  in  some  of  the  books  of 

Phillips  Academy,  at  Exeter,  N.H.,  and  has  a 
representation  of  the  arms  of  the  Phillips  family, 
with  a  festoon  of  flowers  above  it,  and  below  it  is 
appended  the  following  statement  and  exhorta- 
tion :  — 

The  Trustees  of  Phillips  Academy  to  whom  is  committed 
the  distribution  of  the  pious  bounty  of  the  late  Lt.  Gov. 
Phillips  wishing  to  co-operate  in  the  same  benevolent  and 
useful  design,  affectionately  recommend  this  inestimable 
book  to  the  serious  and  careful  perusal  of  every  person  into 
whose  hands  it  may  fall. 

Reader,  whoever  thou  art,  the  work  before  you  is  the  pro- 
duction of  one  of  the  ablest  and  best  of  men,  whose  praise  is 
in  all  the  churches.  Though  dead,  he  is  instructing  thou- 
sands by  his  numerous  and  excellent  practical  ( ?)  writings 
which  have  survived  him.  Among  these,  The  Saints'  Rest 
has  been  most  highly  esteemed.  l-Ie  wrote  it  in  the  near 
view  of  death,  when  in  feeble  health,  and  for  his  own 
immediate  use;  and  he  testifies  that  he  derived  "more 
benefit  from  it,  than  from  all  the  other  studies  of  his  life." 
Yqw  books  have  ever  received  higher  commendations,  been 
translated  into  more  languages,  passed  through  more 
numerous  editions,  been  more  read,  or  more  useful  in  the 
Christian  church  than  this.  No  person  of  a  serious  mind 
can  read  it  without  profit. 

"  To  allure  our  desires,  it  unveils  the  sanctuary  above,  and 
discovers  the  glories  and  joys  of  the  blessed  in  the  Divine 
presence,  by  a  light  so  strong  and  lively,  that  all  the  glittering 
vanities  of  this  world  vanish  in  the  comparison,  and  a  sincere 
believer  will  despise  them,  as  one  of  mature  age  does  the 
toys  and  baubles  of  children.  To  excite  our  fears  he  re- 
moves the  screen,  and  represents  the  tormenting  passions  of 


Early  American  Book-plates.     267 

the  damned  in  those  dreadful  colors,  that,  if  duly  considered, 
would  check  and  control  the  unbridled  licentious  appetites 
of  the  most  sensual."  ^ 

Reader,  the  book  is  in  your  hands,  read,  meditate,  and 
then  judge  for  yourself.  May  the  Lord  bless  the  instruction 
for  your  spiritual  benefit.  So  will  the  good  design  of  the 
pious  doner  be  answered,  and  the  Agents  of  his  bounty  have 
their  desired  reward. 

676.  Phcenix  Society.     Phcenix  Society. 

Pictorial.  A  large  shield,  heart  shaped,  encloses  a 
picture  of  a  large  plantation,  evidently  with  a  con- 
siderable settlement  on  the  rising  ground  ;  a  stream 
meanders  through  the  estate,  and  various  kinds  of 
crops  are  under  cultivation  ;  a  little  summer-house 
is  seen  at  the  end  of  a  long  path.  A  large  curtain 
is  draped  over  the  shield,  and  a  stag  and  a  lion 
guard  it  at  the  foot.  Under  all,  a  tablet  shows  a 
second  smaller  shield  quartered  heraldically,  and 
bearing  a  hunter's  horn,  a  right  arm,  a  quill  and 
roll  of  paper,  and  a  twig  from  an  oak  tree  on  the 
four  quarters ;  this  is  draped  with  a  festoon  of 
holly  leaves,  and  a  line  in  Greek  impossible  of 
translation  is  given  above  it.  The  meaning  and 
use  of  this  plate  is  mysterious.  It  came  from 
Charleston,  S.C. 

677.  Pickering.     Henry  Pickering. 

Armorial.     Crest  only.     Poet. 

678.  Pickering.     Jolin  Pickering  yi/nr. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto. 

679.  Pickering.     T.  A.  Pickering. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto. 
Possibly    by   Callender. 

680.  Pierce.     William  L.  Pierce. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Infiitura 
spector.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.     Of  New  York. 

681.  PiERPONT.      Charles  Pierpont. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Manet 
amicitia  jiorebit  que  semper.     Signed,  6".  Hill. 

1  Dr.  Bates. 


268  American  Book-plates. 

682.  PiERPONT.     yohn  Pierpont. 

Simply  a  name-label  engraved  on  copper.  Minister 
and  poet  of  Litchfield,  Conn.     Born,  1785. 

683.  Pinfold.     Charles  Pinfold.     LL.D. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Two  different  plates  are  known,  but  they  are  very 
similar. 

684.  Pinfold.     Charles  Pinfold  LL.D.     Governor  of  Barba- 

does. 

Same  as  above,  with  title  added. 

685.  PiNTARD.      y^ohn  Pintard,  LL.D. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  Signed,  Anderson.  The  shield 
rests  at  the  foot  of  a  palm  tree  ;  an  anchor  lies 
behind  it ;  the  motto.  Never  despair,  is  given  on  a 
ribbon  and  the  motto,  Fais  bien  crains  rien,  is  on 
the  oval  shield.  The  following  line  in  Greek  is  also 
given,  Kara  o)(0)(ov  0101-^10,  while  a  fourth  motto, 
Depressa  resiirgo,  is  seen  on  a  ribbon  floating 
over  the  top  of  the  tree.  This  is  a  fine  woodcut. 
Founder  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 

686.  PiNTARD.      J^ohn  Pintard. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Fais,  bien 
e rains,  rien.     Signed,  Maveriek  Set. 

687.  Poor.     Benjamin  Poor. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pauper  non  in  spe.  Father 
of  Major  Ben  :  Perley  Poore. 

688.  PoPHAM.      William  Popham. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  No  motto. 
Signed,  Maveriek  Sep.     Of  New  York. 

689.  PouLsoN.     yohn  Poulson's. 

A  name-label  printed  wholly  from  type,  the  border 
being  very  elaborate.  Signed,  Printed  by  Zachariah 
Poulson  junior.     Of  Philadelphia. 

690.  PowEL.     Samuel  Potvel. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Proprium  deeus 
et petrum.  This  is  a  better  plate  in  execution  than 
those  made  by  Dawkins,  and  as  it  is  almost  identical 
with  the  John  Morgan,  M.U.,  plate,  which  is  prob- 
ably by  Dawkins,  it  may  have  been  his  model.     He 


Early  Auierican  Book-plates.      2.6c) 

seems  to  have  copied  freely  from  the  designs  of 
other  engravers.  This  plate  may  have  been  the 
work  of  W.  Smith,  who  engraved  the  William  Spry. 
The  Ryland  Randolph,  which  is  undoubtedly 
English  in  execution,  is  similar  to  all  these  and 
better  than  them  all.  Of  Philadelphia.  Twice 
mayor  of  the  city. 

691.  Powell.     Hare  Samuel  Poivell. 

Armorial. 

692.  Powell,     yohn  H.  Poiuell. 

The  same  copper  as  the  Samuel  Powell  plate,  with 
the  name  altered.  Founder  of  Pennsylvania  Agri- 
cultural Society. 

693.  Powell.     Philip  Poivell. 

Armorial. 

694.  Power,      'jfames  Power  of  King  William  County.     Price. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Impainde.  Of 
Virginia. 

695.  PowNALL.     Thomas  Pownall. 

Armorial.  Book-pile.  Motto,  Videte  et  cavete  ab 
avaritia.  Luke.  12.  xv.  This  is  a  typical  "  Book- 
pile  "  plate.  The  books  are  arranged  in  tiers,  with 
the  shield  in  the  centre ;  globes  stand  upon  the 
topmost  books  at  either  side ;  a  scroll  falls  from 
under  the  shield  and  bears  the  name  ;  the  second 
motto  is  placed  under  all,  Tlie  1  licked  borrozveth 
&=  paycth  not  again.  Born  in  England  in  1722; 
came  to  America  in  1753  ;  Lieutenant-Governor  of 
New  Jersey  in  1755  ;  Governor  of  Massachusetts  in 
1757,  and  of  South  Carolina  in  1760;  returned  to 
England,  entered  Parliament,  and  died  at  Bath  in 
1805. 

696.  Prescott.      William  Prescott. 

Crest  only.  Motto,  Nil  conscire  sibi.  Father  of 
the  historian.     Lawyer  and  jurist. 

697.  Prescott.      William  H.  Prescott. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Non  conscire  sibi.  Signed, 
A^S,     The  eminent  historian,* 


J?7Q 


Early  American  Book-plates.     271 

698.  Preston.      William  Campbell  Preston. 

President  of  South  Carolina  College  from  1845  ^o 
1851. 

699.  Price,     Benjamin  Price.     Esqr. 

Armorial.     Jacobean.     No  motto. 

700.  Price.     Ezekiel  Price. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  This  plate 
is  not  signed,  but  is  undoubtedly  by  Hurd.  It  has 
the  flow  of  water  from  the  shell  beneath  the  shield, 
the  peculiar  dash  after  the  name,  and  resembles  the 
Bering  plate.     Of  Boston. 

701.  Pride.     Halcott  B.  Pride. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Libertas. 
Signed,  Maverick  Sculp.     Of  New  York. 

702.  Priestley.    Joseph  Priestley. 

Plain  armorial.  Manthng.  Motto,  Ars  lo?iga,  vita 
brevis.  Of  Pennsylvania.  Philosopher,  chemist, 
and  theologian. 

703.  Prince.    By  the  name  of  Prince. 

Plain  armorial.     Signed,  IVightman.     Sc. 

704.  Prince.     Thomas  Prince  Liber,  Anno  Domini :  1204. 

A  printed  name-label  surrounded  by  ornamental 
type.  See  illustration  in  "Curio,"  page  12. 
Thomas  Prince  was  pastor  of  the  Old  South  Society 
(Boston)  from  1718  to  1758.  His  library  is  one 
of  the  best  known  of  colonial  times ;  he  began  to 
collect  books  as  early  as  1 703,  as  is  shown  by  the 
following  plate  :  "  This  book  belongs  to  the  New- 
England  Library,  begun  to  be  collected  by  Thomas 
Prince  upon  his  entering  Harvard  College  July  6th, 
1703,"  etc.  The  volumes  were  deposited  in  the 
steeple-chamber  of  the  Old  South  Church,  and 
suffered  somewhat  during  the  British  occupation. 
The  remaining  volumes  are  now  in  the  Boston 
Public  Library.  Illustrated  in  the  "  Ex  Libris 
Journal,"  Vol.  Ill,  page  152. 

705.  Prioleau.     Thomas  G.  Prioleau. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Pax  in 
l>ello.     Physician.     Of  Charleston,  S.C. 


272  American  Book-plates. 

706.  Proctor.      Col  Thomas  Proctor,  Artillery. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Honor  virtutis  praeinium. 
Colonel  of  Pennsylvania  Artillery  during  the 
Revolution. 

707.  Provoost.    John  Provoost. 

Armorial.     Jacobean.     Motto,  Pro  lib  erf  ate. 

708.  Provoost.     Saml.  Provoost.     Esqr.     Coll:  Pet :  Cant 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  libertate. 
Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  by  Maverick.  This 
plate  is  earlier  than  the  succeeding, 

709.  Provoost.     Saml.  Provoost. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Pro 
libertate.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  First  Bishop 
of  New  York;  elected,  1786.  Consecrated  in 
England.  Illustrated  in  "  Ex  Libris  Journal,"  Vol. 
Ill,  page  157. 

710.  Pruvn.     Samuel  Pn/yn.     Albany. 

Pictorial.  The  scene  is  towards  the  close  of  day, 
by  the  side  of  the  water ;  Orpheus  sits  upon  a 
little  knoll  playing  his  lyre  as  he  gazes  up  into  the 
sky ;  the  passing  ship  does  not  distract  him,  and 
the  rising  clouds  and  growing  dusk  are  not 
observed.  A  very  pretty  plate.  Signed,  D.  JF. 
JVilson  Sc. 

711.  Putnam.      The   Propert\'   of   Aaron    Putnam,    Medford. 

178-. 

A  printed  label  with  the  motto  between  the  borders. 
Motto,  TheWickcd borroii>,but do  not 7-e turn  again; 
See  thou  art  not  of  that  Number. 

712.  QuiNCT.    Josiah  Quincy. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Discretio  Moderatrix 
Virtutum.  A  very  fuzzy  plate.  The  mantling 
comes  well  down  the  sides  of  the  shield,  and  is 
blown  above  the  helmet  in  very  feathery  form.  An 
etching,  with  the  name  in  fac-simile  of  owner's  auto- 
graph :  in  two  sizes  with  no  great  dissimilarity, 
though  the  motto  is  not  given  on  the  larger  one. 
The  Massachusetts  patriot. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      273 

713.  Randolph.    John  Randolph  Esqr  of  the  Middle  Temple 

London. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  No  motto.  The  name 
and  address  occupy  a  double  ribbon  at  the  foot. 
Signed,  BATH.  /.  Skinner.  The  copy  before  me 
is  dated  in  writing,  1^42.  Of  Virginia.  This  is 
the  same  copper  that  the  Peyton  Randolph  was  en- 
graved on.  The  lower  ribbon  is  added,  and  the 
name  imperfectly  altered.  The  old  name  shows 
through.     Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  64. 

714.  Randolph.    John  Randolph  of  Roanoke. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pari  quae  seutiat.  Very 
pretty  mantling.  A  second  motto  above  the  crest, 
Nil  adniirari.     The  Virginia  orator. 

715.  Randolph.    John  Randolph  Jiinr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Moiio,  Faro  quae  sentiaf. 
A  very  handsome  plate.  The  shield  is  oval  in 
form  and  is  raised  upon  an  elaborate  frame, 
trimmed  upon  its  upper  edge  with  a  garland  of 
roses,  and  with  the  shell-edging  at  the  base  ;  at 
the  left  a  cupid  is  just  coming  into  view,  holding 
up  the  festoon  of  flowers  as  he  comes.  The  motto 
is  on  a  ribbon  at  the  base,  and  the  name  on  a  small 
curtain  whose  ends  are  thrust  through  the  scrolls  of 
the  frame.     Of  Virginia. 

716.  Randolph.     Peyton  Randolph.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Signed, 
BATH.     I.  Skinner.     First  President  of  Congress. 

717.  Randolph.     Ryland  Randolph. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pari  quae  sentiat. 
This  plate  is  like  the  Powell  and  Morgan  plates,  but 
is  superior  to  them  in  all  ways  ;  undoubtedly  of 
English  make.     Of  Virginia. 

718.  Rapr-vel.     B.J.  Raphael.     M.D. 

Pictorial.  A  hand  holding  a  surgeon's  knife  ;  clouds 
about.     Signed,  Rohun  and  Co\     Louisville.     Ky. 

719.  Raphael.     B.J.  Raphael.     M.D. 

Pictorial.  A  skull  and  crossed  bones.  Of  Ken- 
tucky. 


274  American  Book-plates. 

720.  Ray.     Robert  Ray. 

Plain  armorial.  ]\Iotto,  J^cspere  en  Dieu.  Ot 
New  York. 

721.  Read.     Cha.  Read  of  New  Jersey,  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath,  Motto,  Nee  spe 
nee  inetu.  A  peculiar  plate :  the  shield  is  sur- 
mounted by  highly  rolled  mantling  from  which 
lances  depend  at  either  side  and  suspend  the  motto- 
ribbon.  Father  of  the  Colonel  Read  who  figured 
in  the  "Joseph  Reed  Controversy." 

722.  Read.      Wm.  Read. 

Plain  armorial.  The  shield  is  fastened  to  a  tree,  the 
branches  of  which  are  made  to  resemble  mantling, 
though  there  is  no  helmet.  Motto,  Iiide/essus  vigi- 
lando.     Of  Maryland. 

723.  Reed.      Catherine  P.  Reed.     Sayhrook,  Conn. 

A  printed  name-label  with  ornamental  type  border. 
On  green  paper. 

724.  Reed.     Elijah  F.  Reed's. 

Literary.  An  exact  reduced  copy  of  the  plate  of 
Thomas  Robbins,  even  the  motto  being  identical. 

725.  Reverly.     Henry  Reverly. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Signed,  F.  Kirk  Sc. 

726.  Reynolds.     Hannah  Reynolds. 

A  name-label.  The  oval  frame  holding  the  name 
is  festooned  with  flowers  and  wheat  stalks ;  an  urn 
rests  upon  the  frame. 

727.  Richards.     The  property  of  Mrs.  Sally  Richards.     1794. 

A  plain  name-label  in  an  ornamental  type  border. 

728.  Rickets.      William  Rickets  Esqr. 

Plain  armorial.  Very  copious  mantling  rises  high 
above  the  shield,  and  falls  low  on  either  side.  Of 
New  York. 

729.  Riddle's    Library.     J.   Riddle's     Circulating    Library. 

Shakespear  Head,  No.  7^  South  8th  opposite  to 
Sansom  Strt.     Philadelphia. 

Pictorial.  A  good  head  of  Shakespeare  is  in  the 
centre  of  the  design;  this  copy  is  numbered  665, 
showing  a  fair-sized  number  of  books. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      275 

730.  RivoiRE.     Paul  Rivotre. 

Armorial.  No  motto.  The  family  name  was 
spelled  thus  in  France,  but  was  altered  very  soon 
upon  coming  to  this  country.  It  is  strange  that 
this  spelling  should  come  up  again  in  a  book-plate 
unless  engraved  by  the  owner  himself. 

731.  R.ODBINS.     Phikinon  Robbins,  His  Book,  A.D.  i'j§^. 

Printed  label.     Of  VVethersfield,  Conn. 

732.  ROBBINS.      Thomas  Robbins. 

Literary.  The  name  is  given  upon  an  oval  medal- 
lion, above  which  rise  the  well-filled  book-shelves 
of  the  owner.  A  curtain  is  draped  over  them,  and 
sprays  of  palm  are  crossed  beneath  the  oval. 
Under  all  is  the  motto  on  a  ribbon,  Noctnrna 
versafe  manii,  versate  diiirna.  (Hor.)  A  Connecti- 
cut divine,  who  left  his  library  to  the  Connecticut 
Historical  Society.  A  variation  of  this  plate  places 
the  name  within  an  oblong  frame  with  indented 
corners.     Otherwise  the  same. 

733.  Roberts.     G.  C.  M.  Roberts.     M.D.     Baltimore. 

Literary.  A  confusion  of  books  upon  a  heavy 
board  shelf.  A  lighted  candle  at  one  end ;  the 
name  on  the  front  edge  of  the  shelf.  Motto, 
Alere  flammaju. 

734.  Roberts.     George  C.  M.  Roberts.     M.D.     Baltimore, 

Similar  to  the  above,  but  no  mott 

735.  Robertson.     Eben  Robertson. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Virtu tis  gloria  vierces. 

736.  Robertson.     Eben  Robertson.     Kingston,  Jamaica. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Virthtis  gloria 
7nerces.     The  man  in  chains  below  the  shield. 

737.  Robinson.     Beverly  Robinson. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Propere  et  provide.  Of 
New  York.  Wealthy  Loyalist  concerned  in  the 
treason  of  Arnold. 

738.  Rogers.     Fairman  Rogers. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Dictis  factisque  simplex. 
Illustrated  in  ''Art  Amateur,"  May,  1894. 


276  American  Book-plates. 

739.  RooME.    Jacob  Roome. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Virtute  et  fide. 
Signed,  H.  Dawkins.     Sculpsit. 

740.  Roome.    John  L.  C.  Roome. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Signed,  H.  Dawkins 
Sculpsit.  At  one  side,  a  cupid  flies  a  bird  with  a 
string  tied  to  it,  and  on  the  other  side  his  com- 
panion attempts  the  capture  of  another  bird.  A 
Loyalist  lawyer  of  New  York  City.     Circa  1774. 

741.  RossEAU.     Rosseau. 

Armorial.  A  large  plate,  with  the  shield  upon  an 
ermine  mantle.  Signed,  Karst.  A  book-collector 
of  New  York  City.  His  collection  of  book-plates 
passed  into  the  hands  of  a  member  of  the  Ex 
Libris  Society  last  year. 

742.  RouTH.     David  Rotith.     His  Book.     Norfolk,  1^62. 

A  label  with  the  name  within  a  double  border  of 
fancy  type. 

743.  RoYALL.     Isaac  Royall  Esqr  of  Antigua. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Pectore  puro.  Of 
Massachusetts.  Loyalist.  Benefactor  of  Harvard 
College.  This  plate  is  very  similar  to  the  Belcher 
in  shape  and  size.    Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  15. 

744.  Ruff.    Joanna  M.  Ruff.      Washington  City. 

Printed  from  type  within  a  border  of  ten  American 
eagles. 

745.  Rush.     (Anonymous.)     Rush  arms. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Aliseris  succurrere 
disce.  Name-frame  empty  ;  name  evidently  erased. 
Probably  the  plate  of  the  signer  of  the  Declaration 
from  Pennsylvania,  Benjamin  Rush.  He  is  said 
to  have  destroyed  all  the  copies  of  his  plate  which 
he  could  find. 

746.  Russell.    Josh.  Russell. 

A  simple  name-label.  The  name,  with  the  initials 
above  it  in  a  cipher  monogram,  is  enclosed  within 
a  rectangular  frame.  This  is  a  woodcut,  and  is  the 
work  of  Anderson. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      2"]"] 

747.  Russell.     Thomas  Russell. 

Allegorical,  ^xgntd.,  Calknder  S/>.  This  plate  is  a 
copy  of  the  plate  of  Joseph  Barrell. 

748.  Rutgers.     Hendrick  Rutgers. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Tantes  da  dir. 
Of  New  York  City.     Patriot  and  philanthropist. 

749.  Rutherford.    John   Rutherford. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Nee  sorte  nee  fato.  Born  in 
New  York  about  1760.  One  of  the  proprietors 
of  East  Jersey. 

750.  Rutledge.     (Anonymous.)     Rutledge  arms. 

Supporters,  a  collared  lion  and  an  American 
Indian.  They  stand  upon  the  ribbon,  which  bears 
the  motto,  Progredi  no  a  regredi.  Signed,  S.  C. 
Barnes  6"   Co.,  Coventry  St.     Of  South  Carolina. 

751.  St.  Clair.     Sir  John  St.  Clair  Bart. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Quo  cuncjue  ferar. 
Signed,  Ja.  Turner.,  Philada.,  Sculpt.  Munitions 
of  war  are  seen  behind  the  name-bracket.  Of 
Philadelphia.  A  British  officer,  associated  with 
Braddock. 

752.  St.  George's  Church.     Library  of  the  Sunday  Schools 

attached  to  St  George's   Church,  established  A.D. 

18 ig.     Presented  by No 

Above  the  words  is  a  pretty  little  picture  of  a  child 
on  her  knees  reading  from  a  book  on  a  table  before 
her.  This  plate  is  not  signed,  and  seems  to  be 
better  work  than  was  done  on  the  plate  of  the 
Teachers'  Union  of  this  same  church. 

753.  St.  George's  Church.      The  property  of  the  Teachers* 

Union    of   St.    George's     Church.      Presented    by 

No 

An  engraved  label.  No  ornamentation  beyond 
flourishes.     Signed,  Rollinson. 

754.  Salter.     Richard  Salter,  Esq.   Barbadoes. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto-ribbon  empty.  The 
name  is  given  on  the  looped  curtain. 


278  American  Book-plates. 

755.   Saltonstall.      Walter  Saltonstall. 

Armorial.  Arms,  Argent,  a  bend  gules,  between 
two  eagles  displayed  sable.  Crest,  out  of  a  ducal 
coronet  a  demi-pelican  \-ulning  herself. 

7^0.    Saltoxst.\ll.      William  SaltonstalL 
Armorial. 

757.   Samuels.     (Anonymous.)     Plate  of  James  Samuels. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Lun  Pour  Vautre. 
Signed,  H,  Vawkins,  PkilaJa.,  Fecit.  The  hissing 
griffin,  as  in  the  Bushrod  Washington  plate,  is  given 
here. 

75S.    Sarg1l\nt.  Jacoi'  Sargeant. 

Armorial  in  form,  though  no  real  arms  are  shown. 
Chippendale.  Motto,  Cito  pede  praeterit  aetas. 
Not  signed,  but  engraved  on  brass  by  the  ownier. 
Of  Connecticut.  Some  dated  copies  of  this  plate 
are  about,  but  the  date  is  not  contemporary  or 
correct.     Also,  the  plate  was  not  signed  originally. 

759.  Sargent.     Daniel  Sa rgent Junr. 

Armorial.      Ribbon    and    Wreath.      Motto,    Xec 

quaerere  honorem  nee  spemere.  Signed,  Calkn 
iter  Sc.     Of  Massachusetts. 

760.  Sargexf.     Epes  Sargent. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto  -  scroll  empty. 
Signed,  P.  Revere  Sculp. 

761.  S.\RGENT.      Winthrop  Sargent. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  ForHor  quo  recticr.  Of 
Massachusetts.  Statesman  and  Revolutionary-  sol- 
dier. 

762.  SCHI'\"LER.     Philip  Schuyler  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Major- 
General  in  the  Revolution,  and  was,  after  the  war, 
a  Senator.     Illustrated  in  '•  Curio,"  page  i  to. 

763.  ScHL'YLER.     Samuel  Schuyler. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Semper  fiJeHs. 
Of  New  York.     Bom,  March  10,  1 746  ;  died,  1 790. 

764.  Scott.     Benjamin  Scott. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     No  motto. 


Early  Aijicrican  Book-plates.      279 

765.  Scott.     Gustavits  Scott. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Gaudia 
magna  nuncio.  A  lawyer  of  Virginia.  Died  in 
Washington,  iSoi. 

766.  Scott.    John  V. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  In  God  we 
trust.  This  plate  is  just  like  the  De  Witt  Clinton 
by  Maverick.  The  last  name  is  torn  out  in  the 
only  copy  seen,  but  the  arms  are  those  of  Scott. 

767.  Scott.      IVinfield  Scott. 

Plain  armorial.  ATotto,  Amore  patriae.  Of  Vir- 
ginia.    Famous  General. 

768.  ScOTi'OX.    John  Scotton. 

xArmorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Of  Boston, 
Mass. 

769.  Sears.     Sears. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty. 

7  70.   Sears.     David  Sears. 

Armorial.  A  knight  in  armor  and  an  Indian  for 
supporters,     ^loiio,  Honore  etfides.     Circa  1830. 

771.  Secombe.    John  Seconibe  his  book  172^. 

Name-label,  with  ornamental  type  border.  Clergy- 
man and  poet.     Of  Massachusetts. 

772.  Sedgwick.     Theodore  Sedgicick  Junr. 

Crest  only.  The  crest  is  given  above  an  oval  garter, 
within  which  is  the  motto.  Confide  in  Domino. 
Publicist  and  lawyer  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 

773.  Selfridge.      Thomas  O.  Self  ridge  Boston  ijgg. 

Two  fluted  pillars  are  joined  at  the  capitals  by 
festoons  of  roses ;  the  name  is  in  the  open  space 
between  them.  A  woodcut.  Selfridge  was  the 
Federalist  lawyer  of  Boston  who  shot  Charles  Austin. 

774.  Semple.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

775.  Seton.      William  Seton. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Hazard 
zit forward.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  Of  New 
York. 


28o  American  Book-plates. 

776.  Sewell.     Armorial. 

777.  Sheppard.    John  H.  Sheppard. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Nil 
despcrandiim.  Of  Massachusetts.  Lawyer  and 
author. 

778.  SheRiMAN.     Rev.  Henry  B.  Sherman.     M.A. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Conquer  death  hy 
virtue.  A  very  peculiar  use  is  made  of  the 
Jacobean  features. 

779.  Shippen.     Edward  Shippen  Esquire. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Jurist.  De- 
scendant of  Edward  Shippen,  the  first  Mayor  of 
Philadelphia.  Educated  in  London.  Illustrated 
in  "Curio,"  page  no. 

780.  Shippen.     Robertus  Shippen.     S.  T.  P.  Coll.  Aen.  Nas. 

Principalis. 

A  reproduction  of  the  above.     Illustrated  in  "  Art 

Amateur,"  May,  1894. 

781.  Shubrick.     Thomas  Shubrick,  South  Carolina. 

Plain  armorial.  Colonel  in  the  Revolution.  Illus- 
trated in  "  Curio,"  page  113. 

782.  Silvester.     Peter  Silvester  Esq r. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  A^ec 
degener.  Signed,  Child  Sculpt.  No  tinctures.  Of 
New  York. 

783.  Simpson.    Jonathan  Simpson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Lege  ei  intellige. 
This  plate  is  not  signed,  but  is  undoubtedly  the 
w'ork  of  Hurd. 

784.  Sise.      The  Property  of  Edward  Sisc. 

Pictorial.  An  extremely  rude  home-made  etching. 
A  beautiful  bird  is  resting  upon  a  stunted  tree ;  an 
ornamented  oval  encloses  the  scene. 

785.  Sitgreaves.    John  Sitgreaves  of  New  Bern. 

Armorial  in  form,  but  no  arms  shown.  Ribbon  and 
Wreath.  Motto,  Libertas  et  natale  solum.  The 
name  occupies  the  oval  space  where  ordinarily  the 
arms  are  displayed.     Books   and   writing-material 


Early  Afnerican  Book-plates.      281 

are  introduced  below  the  frame.  Signed,  Maverick 
Sep  Neiv  York.  Member  Old  Congress.  Revolu- 
tionary patriot. 

786.  Skelton.     Reuben  Skelfon  Hanover  Comity  Virginia. 

Armorial.     Chippendale,     Motto-ribbon  empty. 

787.  Skipwith.     Fuhvar  Skipwith. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  INIotto,  Sans 
Dieu  je  ne  puis.  Of  Virginia.  Of  the  family  of 
Skipwith  of  Preswould,  County  Leicester.     Baronet. 

788.  Smith.     Smith. 

Armorial.     Jacobean. 

789.  Smith.     Haziel  Sniitli,  Carpenter,  New  York.     Deaf  and 

Dumb. 

A  printed  label,  within  a  circular  border.  This  men- 
tion of  a  physical  infirmity  on  a  book-plate  is  unique. 

790.  Smith.     Hezekiah  Smith. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  Motto,  Beauty  and 
Grace.  An  open  book  for  crest,  with  the  following 
Greek  on  it,  'Epeoi/are  ras  ypa(f)a<;  ;  the  sun  in 
splendor  above  it.     Of  Massachusetts. 

791.  Smith.     (Anonymous.) 

Portrait  plate.  Showing  a  young  man  holding  a 
book,  clad  in  the  manner  of  the  studious  youth  of 
the  early  part  of  the  century.  Beneath,  the  motto. 
Qui  contentusfelix.  A  very  pretty  bit  of  engraving. 
This  was  the  plate  of  G.  A.  Smith,  a  book-lover, 
whose  library  was  sold  in  New  York  City  some  thirty 
years  ago. 

792.  Smith,    James  Scott  Smith. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Ne  crede 
colori.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculp.     Of  New  York. 

793.  Smith.    John  A.  Smith. 

A  beautiful  pictorial  plate.  On  the  smooth  face  of 
an  immense  rock  the  name  is  carved  ;  the  trees 
grow  close  to  it  on  the  far  side,  and  in  the  long 
distance  other  trees  are  seen;  clouds  float  lazily, 
and  the  effect  is  sultry.  A  doctor  of  medicine  in 
Virginia.  Born,  1782;  died,  1865.  President  of 
William  and  Mary  CoUegCj  1814-1826. 


282  American  Book-plates. 

794.  Smith.     John  Adams  Smith. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Finis  coronat  opus.  Signed^ 
Rollinson  Set. 

795.  Smith.     John  J .  Smith. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto ;  the  name 
occupying  the  motto-ribbon.  This  plate  is  exactly 
like  the  James  Logan.  Great-grandson  of  James 
Logan.  Librarian  of  Philadelphia  and  Loganian 
libraries. 

796.  Smith.     Jonathan  Smith.     M  DCC  LX. 

A  printed  name-label  from  type  with  ornamental 
border. 

797.  Smith.     Robert  Smith. 

Armorial.     Major-General  Smith  of  Virginia. 

798.  Smith.     Samuel  Smith. 

Name-label ;  name  engraved  within  an  oval, 
trimmed  with  a  wreath. 

799.  Smith.     Samuel  Smith,  Esquire. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  A  cherub  is  seated,  busily 
reading,  at  the  right  side,  while  on  the  left  his 
companion  blows  lustily  upon  a  horn,  in  the  direc- 
tion of  the  sky,  whence  a  third  cherub  approaches, 
displaying  a  long  ribbon  upon  which  is  the  motto, 
Omnes  fremant  licet  dicam  quod  sentio.  The 
whole  design  rests  upon  a  bracket  garlanded  with 
roses. 

800.  Smith.      Thomas  Smith. 

Armorial.     Of  Gloucester,  Va. 

801.  Smith.      Thomas  Smith  Junr.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Nee  aspera 
terrent.  Signed,  J/^/z'^/vV/C'  Sculpt.  The  customary 
landscape  beneath  the  shield,  and  the  signature 
on  the  open  scroll.  This  plate  is  a  copy  of  the 
James  Scott  Smith  plate,  and  is  much  better  work. 
Of  New  York. 

802.  Smith.     Thomas  J.  Smith. 

Armorial.  Of  New  York.  Signed  by  Maverick. 
La\v}er  and  scholar. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     283 


803.    Smith.      William  Smith. 


Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Chacun  a  son 
gout.  Not  signed,  but  undoubtedly  by  Hurd.  Of 
Massachusetts. 


^r 


804.  Smith.      William  Smith. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Tutus  si 
fortis.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.     Of  New  York. 

805.  Smith.      William  Smith  A.Af. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  A^il  utile  quod  7W77 
honestum.  Of  New  York.  Rather  wild  in  ap- 
pearance. 


284  Am  eric  ait  Book-plates. 

806.  Smith.      William  Smith  LL.D.     Charleston  S.  Caroliiia. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  INIotto,  Fidem 
sefTal)o  gemisque.  Statesman  and  lawyer.  Born, 
1784  ;  died,  1840. 

807.  Smith.      William  Loughton  Smith. 

Diplomatist.  Statesman  of  Charleston,  S.C.  Bom, 
1758 ;  died,  1812. 

808.  Smith.      William  P.  Smith  A.M. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Deits  7wbis  haec  otia 
fecit.  Signed,  Thomas  y^ohnston  Sculp.  The  most 
ambitious  Jacobean  plate  of  our  early  period.  Prob- 
ably the  plate  of  William  Peartree  Smith  of  New 
York.     Illustrated  in  "Art  Amateur,"  May,  1894. 

809.  Smyth.     Andrew  Smyth. 

Armorial. 

810.  Society  for  Propagatixg  the  Gospel.     Sigillum  Socie ta- 

lis De  Promovendo  Evangelio  In  Partibus  Trans- 
ma  rin  us. 

Allegorical.  An  oval  frame  bears  the  Latin  inscrip- 
tion and  a  broad  ribbon  underneath  bears  the  follow- 
ing, The  Gift  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the  Gospel 
in  Foreign  parts,  ijo^..  The  scene  is  off  the  coast ; 
a  three-masted  ship,  with  all  sails  set,  is  within  a 
few  feet  of  the  shore  ;  the  missionary,  whose  height 
is  equal  to  one  half  the  foremast,  stands  before  that 
mast  with  Bible  in  hand  and  is  already  preaching 
to  the  natives  whb,  with  outstretched  hands,  come 
running  down  the  declivity.  The  imminent  danger 
of  the  ship  is  possibly  the  real  cause  of  the  interest 
on  the  part  of  the  natives.  The  full  sun  bestows 
his  blessing,  and  a  serpentine  ribbon  in  mid-air 
bears  the  motto,  Transiens  adiuvanos.  Two  vari- 
eties.    Illustrated  in  "Curio,"  page  11. 

811.  South  Carolina.      Protestant  Episcopal  Society  for  the 

Advancement  of  Christianity  in  South   Carolina. 
A  printed  label. 

812.  Spaight.     Spaight. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Vi  et  virtute.  Of  North 
Carolina. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     285 

813.  SpoONER.     yoshua  Spoon er. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Follow  reason. 
Signed,  N.  Hiird,  Sep.  Of  Massachusetts.  A 
very  fine  plate. 

814.  Spooner.      Win.  Spooner. 

Pictorial.  A  play  on  the  name.  Two  doves  are 
billing  and  cooing,  and  two  hearts  are  overlapped 
above  them.     Of  Newport.     Circa  1825. 

815.  Spotswood.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Early  Chippendale.  Motto,  Patior  ut 
potiar.     Of  Virginia. 

816.  Spr  igg.     Rich  a  rd  Sprigg  ju  n  r. 

Name-label  within  an  ornamental  border  of  foliated 
scrolls,  in  the  top  of  which  a  group  of  thirteen  stars 
is  fixed.  Signed,  T.  Sparnnv.  Above  his  name 
are  the  letters  F.  G.,  whose  meaning  is  lost.  A 
woodcut. 

817.  Spry.      William  Spry. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed,  W. 
Smith's.  Of  New  York.  The  design  of  this  plate 
is  similar  to  some  by  Dawkins,  but  the  execution  is 
superior.  Probably  Dawkins  copied  from  Smith, 
who  was  without  doubt  an  English  engraver. 

818.  Stanford.    Thos.  N.  Stanford. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  INIotto,  Verum 
dicit.     Signed,  Rollinson. 

819.  Stearns.    Steams. 

Plain  armorial.     Motto,  Firm.     Of  Massachusetts. 

820.  Stearns.     Benjamin  Stearns. 

Name-label.  Above  the  name  a  cabalistic  arrange- 
ment of  the  letters  W.  V.  and  M.  with  four  hands 
in  pairs  pointing  at  them.  Motto,  Nihil  me  tangere, 
altered  to  Noli  me  tangere.     Dated  1833. 

821.  Stephens.     William  Stephens. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Mantling.  Motto,  /;/  eorrupta 
fides  nudaque  Veritas.  This  resembles  the  plate  of 
William  Cowper,  Clerk  of  Parliament.  Not  signed, 
but  possibly  by  Maverick,  although  not  in  his  usual 
style. 


286  American  Book-plates. 

822.  Stevens.      Henry  Stevens,  B  a  met.    Ft.   {IVa/ton's  Press, 

Montpelier.  Ft.). 

The  arms  of  the  State  with  its  motto,  Freedom  and 

Unity.     Under  this,  in  a  frame,  is  the  following 

poem  :  — 

/;/  Paradise,  the  tree. 
Of  knozv/edge  taas  the  pride : 
By  God's  sup7-eme  decree, 
The  ma?i  who  eat —  the7i  died. 

But  Heaven  i?i  j?iercy  sitice 
Does  him  who  tastes  forgive  : 
To  know,  is  no  offence  : 
Now,  he  who  eats  —  shall  live. 

The  famous  bibliographer. 

823.  Stevens.      The  Property  of  Hen?y  Stevens,  Barnet,  180-. 

A  simple  name-label,  printed,  with  ornamental  type. 

824.  Stewart.     Anthony  Steioart  Annapolis  Maryland. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Nobilis  ira.  A 
very  handsome  design,  the  name-bracket  being 
large  and  handsomely  ornamented  ;  rows  of  roses 
down  the  sides,  and  the  graceful  foliation,  make  a 
very  handsome  plate. 

825.  Stewart.     James  Stewart.   New  York. 

Armorial.    Chippendale.    JNIotto,  Nil Desperandum. 

826.  Stewart.     Hon.  John  Stewart  Esqr.  Quebec. 

Plain  armorial.  Mantling.  Motto,  Nobilis  ira. 
Signed,  S.  Jones  Sc  Quebec. 

827.  Stille.     Alfred  Stille.    M.D. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Innocenter,  patienter,  con- 
stanter.     A  large  plate.     Of  Philadelphia. 

828.  Stith.    William  Stith. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Rather  virtue  than 
learning,  in  Greek.  The  historian  of  Virginia. 
Date  of  plate,  circa  1745.  Illustrated  in  "Curio," 
page  15. 

829.  Stockbridge.     Charles  Stockbridge. 

Name-label.  Very  much  in  the  style  of  pen 
flourishes. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      287 

830.  Stockton.     Ricliard  Stocktoii,  A.M. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Omnia  Deo  pen- 
dens Books  are  shown  at  either  side  of  the  shield. 
Signer  of  the  Declaration  and  father  of  Commodore 
Stockton  of  New  Jersey. 

831.  Stone.     lV»i.  L.  Stone. 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  struggling  with  a  serpent  rises 
into  the  clouds  with  it,  and  bears  an  open  scroll  in 
one  talon  on  which  we  read,  Demagogues  may 
frown  and  Factions  rage  —  Traitors  may  sigh  and 
Tyrants  weep,  but  Freemen  ttnll  rejoice  for  .... 
A  ribbon  above  the  eagle  bears  the  motto,  Justice, 
Triith.  Signed,  R.  Rawdon.  Alby.  Author  and 
editor. 

832.  Stott.     Ebenezer  Stott. 

Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

^l-^.   Stowe .     Sfowe. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Inter  feros  per  crucem  ad 
coronam.  Calvin  Ellis  Stowe,  clergyman,  and 
husband  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 

834.  Stringer.     Samuel  Stringer. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Signed,  H. 
D.  fecit.  Prominent  physician  in  Eastern  New 
York  State.     Born  in  Maryland,  1 734. 

835.  Strobel.     Martin  Strobcl.      Charleston.     S.C. 

Literary.  Identical  with  the  George  Goodwin  and 
the  Frederick  Marsh  plates. 

836.  Sturges.     J^ohn  Sturges. 

Armorial.  Signed  by  Maverick.  No  further  infor- 
mation is  obtainable. 

837.  Stuyvesant.     Peter  Gerard  Stuyvesant. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  yovae  praestat  fidere 
qiiam  homine. 

838.  Sullivan.     John  Sullivan. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Modestia 
victorix.  Signed,  J.  Ca blender  Sep.  Of  New 
Hampshire.  Major-General  in  the  Revolutionary 
army. 


288  American  Book-plates. 

839.  Sumner.     TJws.  W.  Sumner. 

Name  engraved  upon  a  sable  tablet ;  festoon  of 
cloth  above. 

840.  Sumner.      IV.  H.  Sumner. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  In  ?nedio  tutissimus  ibis. 
The  plate  of  Gen.  William  Hyslop  Sumner.  Born, 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  1780;  died,  1861. 

841.  Supreme   Council    -^i'^.      Supreme    Council  jj°   of  the 

Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  of  Freemasonry  for 
the  NortJiern  Masonic  Jurisdiction  U.  S.  A. 
Masonic  emblems.  A  triangle  with  jj  within  it ; 
above  a  regal  crown  is  shone  upon  by  the  full  rays 
of  the  sun  ;  a  double-headed  eagle  grasps  a  sword. 
Motto,  Deus  meumque  jus. 

842.  Swan.     James  Srcan. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  Supporters,  a  Scotchman  in 
tartan  and  an  Indian  holding  a  tobacco-plant. 
Motto,  Dum  spiro  spero.  Signed,  Callender  Sc.  A 
beehive  at  the  right,  and  at  the  left  a  view  of  the 
ocean,  with  distant  sail  in  sight.  Merchant,  politi- 
cian, scholar,  and  author  before  the  age  of  22. 
Born  in  Scodand ;  came  to  Boston  when  very 
young;  a  member  of  the  "Tea  Party";  wounded 
at  Bunker  Hill ;  went  to  France  and  made  a  fort- 
une ;  through  trouble  with  a  German  correspon- 
dent he  was  imprisoned  in  St.  Pelagic,  Paris,  for 
fifteen  years;  died,  Paris,  1831. 

843.  Svvett.     J.  B.  Sii'ett. 

A  symbolical  plate,  representing  the  profession  of 
medicine.  In  the  upper  part  a  corpse  has  been 
laid  open  for  examination,  and  three  cupids  are  in 
attendance  ;  a  fourth  reads  a  book  of  reference 
with  woful  face,  and  a  saw  and  vessel  would  indi- 
cate that  extreme  measures  were  to  be  tried. 
Below  the  name  the  serpent  of  yEsculapius  twined 
about  the  rod  is  placed  between  retorts,  and  herbs 
growing  in  flower-pots.  The  execution  of  the 
plate  is  poor.  John  Barnard  Swett  of  Newbury- 
port,  Mass. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     289 


844.  Sword.      William  Sword. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  H.  D.  Fecit. 

845.  Tayloe.     Benjn.  Ogle  Tayloe. 

Library  interior.  The  shield  occupies  more  room 
than  anything  else  in  the  library,  and  is  in  the 
immediate  foreground,  standing  upright  against  a 
pillar;  a  festoon  falls  over  it;  behind  shelves  of 
books  are  seen ;  books  are  on  the  floor,  and  a 
globe  is  in  the  corner.     Of  Maryland. 

846.  Tayloe.     John  Tayloe  of  Mount  Airy  Virginia. 

This  plate  is  the  same  as  the  preceding,  and  is 
probably  the  older  print,  the  other  being  from  the 
same  copper  with  the  name  altered, 

847.  Taylor.     George  Taylor. 

Armorial.     Of  Charleston,  S.C. 

848.  Taylor.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.       Ribbon   and  Wreath.       Motto-ribbon 


290  American  Book-plates. 

empty.  This  plate  has  a  guaranteed  autograph  of 
George  Taylor,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  from 
Pennsylvania ;  also  dated  by  him  in  the  year  of 
Independence,  1776. 

849.  Taylor.    Williavi  Taylor. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Jura  sunt 
mea  vindi  cabo.  Signed,  Maverick  Set.  Of  New 
York. 

850.  Tazewell.     John  Taznvell  Virginia. 

Armorial.     Chippendale.     Motto,  Ne  quid  nimis. 

851.  Ten  Broeck.     John  C.  Ten  Broeck. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Perge 
coepisii.  Not  signed,  but  very  probably  by 
Maverick.  Of  New  York.  A  soldier  of  ability  in 
the  Revolution ;  was  with  Washington  at  Valley 
Forge,  and  was  in  many  important  battles.  The 
original  copper  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Beverly 
Chew,  President  of  the  Grolier  Club,  New  York 
City. 

852.  Thomas.     Geo:   Thomas.     Ex  liber,  lygS. 

Pictorial.  The  frame  is  somewhat  of  the  older 
Jacobean  style,  having  a  large  -pediment,  upon 
which  rests  a  circular  frame,  enclosing  a  little 
sketch  of  a  beehive  with  the  swarm  about  it,  a 
mortar  as  large  as  the  beehive  standing  beside  it, 
with  the  pestle  in  it,  and  an  awkward  branch  of  a 
•  rose-bush,  with  two  huge  blossoms  upon  it,  bend- 
ing over  the  mortar.  Oak  branches  ascend  on 
either  side  of  the  frame,  and  what  looks  as  much 
like  a  plum  pudding  as  anything  blazes  away  in 
place  of  a  crest.  The  name  and  date  are  written 
upon  the  face  of  the  pediment.  A  physician  of 
Lancaster,  Pa. 

853.  Thomas.     Isaiah  Thomas. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  A^ee  ehtns  nee  dejec- 
tus.  Of  Worcester,  Mass.  Publisher  of  "  Massa- 
chusetts Spy."  Attributed  to  Johnson.  Illustrated 
in  "Art  Amateur,"  March,  1894. 

854.  Thompson.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     291 

855.  Thompson.     James  Thcvnpson. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto.  Signed,  P.  Maverick, 
Durand  e^  Co. 

85 6.  Thompson.     Robert  Thompson. 

Armorial.  The  arms  are  those  of  Count  Rumford. 
(Benjamin  Thompson.)  No  further  information 
obtainable. 


2^2-  f-yo/z/ 


f^{m//. 


857.  Thompson.     IVi/lm.  Thompson  Esqr, 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ante  victoriam 
ne  cane  triumphum.  A  handsome  plate.  A  cornu- 
copiae  of  flowers  at  the  left. 

858.  Thorndike.     Oliver  Thorndike. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Rosae  inter  spinas 
nascunter.     Of  Boston. 


292  American  Book-plates. 

859.  Thornton.      William  Thornton. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Deo  spes  vieo.  Of 
Virginia.     A  woodcut.     Circa  1745. 

860.  Thruston.     Armorial.     Of  Virginia. 

861.  TiLLOTSON.     Thomas  Tillotson. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Virtus  est 
natalc  meian.     Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt  New  York. 

862.  TOiMLiNSON.     John  Tomlinson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale  ;  rather  wild.  Motto.  Cor 
unum  ira  mca.  Signed,  H.  D.  fecit.  Similar  to 
the  Bushrod  Washington  plate. 

863.  Tract.     Nathaniel  Tracy. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.     Of  IMassachusetts. 

864.  Trenchard.     Lieut.  E.  Trenchard.     U.  S.  Navy. 

Pictorial.  The  name  is  given  upon  an  oval 
medallion,  back  of  which  are  grouped  the  United 
States  flag,  pennants,  bombs,  cannon  balls,  and  an 
anchor,  while  in  the  distance  the  ship  of  the 
Lieutenant  is  seen.  This  plate  was  probably  made 
soon  after  the  War  of  181 2.  Trenchard  was  born 
in  New  Jersey  in  1 784. 

865.  Tripp.     Lot  Tripp,  Neiv  York. 

A  simple  name-label  enclosed  in  an  oval  frame,  and 
cut  on  wood  by  Dr.  Anderson. 

866.  TuBERViLLE.     Gcorge  Lee  Tuhcrville,  Virginia. 

Armorial.  The  shield  is  on  the  breast  of  a  large 
eagle  displayed.  Motto,  Omnia  relinquit  servare 
rempublicam. 

867.  Tucker.     St.  George  Tucker. 

Armorial.  Poet,  jurist,  and  Revolutionary  soldier 
of  Virginia.  Was  called  the  "  American  Black- 
stone." 

868.  Tufts.   S.  Tufts.     Newhuryport. 

A  very  roughly  engraved  label.  The  name  is 
enclosed  within  a  circular  frame. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     293 

869.  TuTTLE.      Tlic property  of  Hugh  Til ttle,  1822. 

The  name  is  arranged  in  the  form  of  a  diamond 
with  the  first  letter  in  the  centre  and  the  others 
about  it  in  natural  order. 

870.  Tyler.     Andrew  Tyler. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Signed,  N.  H. 
Sculp.  The  shield  is  placed  upon  a  bracket  having 
a  handsome  diapered  pattern  ;  the  scrolls  are 
graceful,  the  canephoros  head  on  which  the  shield 
rests  has  curled  hair,  and  the  upper  arms  of  the 
scroll-work  support  urns  filled  with  flowers.  A 
goldsmith  of  Boston. 

871.  Tyler,     yoseph  Tyler. 

Armorial.  Motto,  Fari  quae  sentiat.  By  Thomas 
Johnson. 

872.  Tyng.     Dudley  Atkins  Tyng. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Esse  quam 
vidcri.  Signed,  Callender  Sp.  Of  Massachusetts. 
Descendant  of  Governor  Dudley. 

873.  Uniacke.     Richd.  John  Uniacke.     Esqr.     1801. 

Plain  armorial.  Wo\Xo,  Faithful  and  brave.  Gov- 
ernor-General of  Canada. 

8 74.  United  States  Army.     Head  Quarters  of  the  Army. 

The  American  eagle  displays  the  shield  of  our 
country  upon  his  breast  \  the  motto,  E  Pluribus 
unufn,  and  the  thirteen  stars  are  given  above. 

875.  United  States  Congress.     Library  of  Congress,  United 

States  of  America. 

Engraved.     Oblong  border  of  oak  leaves. 

876.  United  States  Navy.     Naiy  Department. 

The  American  eagle  rests  upon  an  anchor.  A  cir- 
cular frame  about  this  holds  the  words,  Hydro- 
graphic  Office,  U.  S.  Navy.  A  ribbon  below  has 
on  it,  Bureau  of  Navigation. 

877.  United   Siates   Navy.     Navy  Department.     Bureau   of 

Navigation. 

A  large  plate.     Upon  the  shield  is  a  representation 

of  the    mariner's   compass ;    the  American   eagle 


294  American  Book-plates. 

flies  over  the  waves  above  ;  the  motto,  Vigilemus  ut 
vigilatis,  is  given  upon  a  ribbon  below.  Branches 
of  oak  are  used  as  decoration. 

S78.   Van  Berckel.     F.  I.  Van  Bcrckel. 

Armorial.  Supporters,  naked  barbarians  with 
bludgeons  five  feet  long,  and  wreaths  on  their 
heads  ;  they  stand  on  the  motto-ribbon.  Motto, 
Jn  silentio  ct  spe.  'Sixgw^A,  Maverick  Sep.  Of  New 
York. 

879.  Van  Buren.     M.  V.  Buren. 

An  engraved  label ;  the  name  is  in  script  and  a 
thin  festoon  is  draped  above  it.  Very  probably  the 
plate  of  Martin  Van  Buren,  eighth  President  of  the 
United  States. 

880.  Van  Cortlandt,      Van  Cortlandt. 

Armorial.  Military  trophies  behind  the  shield. 
Motto,  Virtus  sibi  mumis.     Of  the  Ivlanor. 

881.  Van  Ness.    J.  P.  Van  Ness. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pro  Deo  et  nohilissima 
patria  Batavorum.  Mantling  comes  down  well 
upon  either  side. 

882.  Van    Rensselaer.    Jer.  Vn.  Rensselaer.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Lieutenant-Governor  of 
New  York,  1801-1803. 

^Zt^.   Van  Rensselaer.     K.  K.  Van  Rensselaer.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Vertus  est 
vera  vetiistas.  Signed,  Maverick,  Sep.,  on  an  open 
scroll.     Of  New  York. 

884.  Van   Rensselaer.     P.  V.  Rensselaer. 

Armorial.     By  Billings. 

885.  Van   Rensselaer.     Stephen  Van  Rensselaer. 

Armorial.  Mantling.  The  name  on  a  broad 
ribbon  surrounding  the  whole.  Not  signed,  but 
probably  by  Maverick.     The  "  Patron." 

886.  Van  Wvck.      Van  Wyck. 

Armorial.     Jacobean.     Supporters.     Of  New  York. 


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887.  Varick.     Richard  Varick  Esq. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  A.  Billings  Sculpt.  Patriotic  features  are 
introduced  into  the  ornamentation.  The  plate  of 
Colonel  Richard  Varick,  a  brave  officer  in  the  Revo- 
■  lution  :  was  Mayor  of  New  York  in  iSoi,  and  with 
Samuel  Jones  revised  the  law  of  the  State  in  i  786. 

888.  Vassall.    John  Vassall.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  This  plate 
is  not  signed,  but  is  undoubtedly  the  work  of  Hurd. 
Of  Cambridge,  Mass.  ;  inheritor  of  a  large  fortune, 
which  he  augmented  largely ;  a  Loyalist,  and  a 
refugee ;  lived  for  some  time  in  England,  and  died 


296  A  in  eric  ail  Book-plates. 

there.  His  mansion-house  at  Cambridge  became 
the  headquarters  of  General  Washington,  and  later 
the  home  of  the  poet  Longfellow.  He  would  not 
use  the  family  motto,  "  Saepe  pro  rege,  semper  pro 
republica,"  on  his  coat-of-arms,  it  is  said. 

889.   Vaughan.     Benjamin  Vaughan. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pnidenter  et  simpliciter. 
Of  Maine.  Educated  in  London  ;  gave  his  library 
to  Bowdoin  College. 

S90.    Vaughan.     Samuel  Vaughan. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  In  prudentia  cSr* 
simplicitate.  Mantling  around  the  helmet.  A 
wealthy  planter  of  Jamaica.  Illustrated  in  "  Curio," 
page  1 1 . 

891.  Vaughan.     Samuel  Vaughan  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Christi  senntusvera 
libertas.     The  Vaughan  arms  impaling  Halle  well. 

89 2.  Vaughan.     Samuel  Vaughan  Junr. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Prudenter  et  simpliciter. 
Of  Maine. 

893.  Vaughan.      William  Vaughan. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Prudenter  et  sif?ipliciter. 
Very  similar  to  the  Samuel  Vaughan  Junr. 

894.  Vaux.     Ediuard  Vaux. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  Philadelphia. 

895.  Vavasour.     Josias  Short  Vavasoiir. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Signed,  H.  Daiukins. 
Sc.  At  the  left,  a  harlequin  in  a  black  mask  peers 
around  the  frame  and  touches  his  feathered  hat ; 
at  the  right  a  fashionably  clad  young  lady,  noticing 
the  intrusion,  holds  up  her  hand-glass,  in  which 
the  black  mask  of  the  new-comer  is  reflected. 
Motto,  Strive  for  glory. 

896.  Vinton.    John  A.  Vinton. 

The  name  is  printed  within  a  woodcut  border,  oval 
in  form,  and  decorated  with  a  wreath  of  flowers 
and  a  spray  of  palm.  The  following  quotation  is 
given  :  Afaximae  divitiae  sunt  prae  doctrina  et 
scientia  contemnendae  :  sed  I'irtus  omnibus  praestat. 
Antiquarian. 


Early  American  Book-plates.      297 


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897.  Virginia  Council  Chamber.     Virginia  Council  Cliamber. 

Armorial.  First  quarter,  the  arms  of  England  and 
Scotland ;  second  quarter,  the  arms  of  France  ; 
third  quarter,  the  arms  of  Ireland  ;  fourth  quarter, 
the  same  as  the  first.  Motto,  En  dat  Virginia 
qiiartam.  Supporters,  two  men  in  complete 
armor,  their  beavers  open,  three  ostrich  feathers  on 
the  helmets,  their  breasts  charged  with  a  cross,  and 
in  the  exterior  hand  a  lance.  Crest,  a  virgin 
queen,  couped  at  the  shoulders,  hair  dishevelled, 
and  crowned  with  an  Eastern  crown.  Illustrated 
in  "  Curio,"  page  14. 

898.  Virginia  Council  Chamber.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Below  the  arms,  which  are  the  same  as 
those  in  the  preceding  plate,  is  a  scene  within  the 
Council  Chamber,  evidently,  as  the  members  are 
around  the  table,  and  are  being  addressed  by  one 
of  their  number.     The  framework  which  supports 


298  American  Book-plates. 

this  is  Chippendale  in  construction,  the  armed 
supporters  stand  upon  the  upper  part,  and  the  very 
lowest  panel  is  occupied  by  the  249th  line  of  the 
first  book  of  Homer's  "  Illiad,"  ToS  Kai  airo  yAwcro-T^s 
ju.eAtro;  yAuKt'oji/  pUv  avSrj.  Signed,  Dent —  Sculpt. 
Bull  Alley,  Lombard  Street.  Lcndon.  The  design 
of  the  plate  is  attributed  to  Samuel  Wale,  R.A. 
See  "The  Book-plate  Annual  and  Armorial  Year 
Book,"  1894.  London,  A.  &  C.  Black,  Soho 
Square. 

899.  VosE.     Benjamin  Vose. 

Armorial. 

900.  Vose.     Solomon  Vose. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Quo  fata 
vacant.     Signed,  Callender  Sc. 

901.  Waldo.     D.  Waldo's. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  Motto,  Nil  sine  Deo.  Of 
Connecticut.     Soldier  in  the  Revolution. 

902.  W.-VLKER.     Samuel  Walker's. 

Pictorial.  Above  the  plain  tablet  which  bears  the 
name,  and  the  mottoes,  Ubi  plura  nitent  paucis 
non  offendar  maculis,  and  Vitanda  est  improba 
Siren  defidia,  a  group  of  musical  accessories  is 
placed  ;  below,  two  sprays  of  oak  branches.  A 
rude  woodcut. 

903.  Wall.     Wall. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Par  pari  refero.  Signed, 
/.  D.  Stout.     N.  V. 

904.  Wallace.     T/ie    Honhle.  Joshua   Maddox    Wallace    of 

Burlington  in  New  Jersey  esqr. 

Armorial.     Chippendale,     ^ioiio,  Fro  pa tria. 

905.  Waller.     Beuja.  Waller.      Virginia. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  A  lawyer  in 
Virginia. 

906.  Walmsley.     /.  Walmsley.     I7g2. 

Armorial.  Very  crude  work.  The  mantling 
encloses  the  shield.     Motto-ribbon  empty. 


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299 


300  American  Book-plates. 

907.  Warren.     G.  Washington  Warren. 

Armorial.  Belongs  to  no  class.  Ornamented  with 
scroll-work.  The  same  plate  is  found  with  the 
name  of  Lucius  Henry  Warren  upon  it. 

908.  Warren.     John  C.  Warren. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  shield  rests  against  a 
boulder,  and  is  shaded  by  a  poplar  tree ;  the 
serpent  and  rod  of  ^Esculapius  lie  on  the  ground, 
and  the  name  is  given  on  a  ribbon.  Eminent 
surgeon  and  medical  writer  of  Boston. 

909.  Warren,     J.  Mason  Warren. 

Plain  armorial.  No  motto,  the  name  occupying 
the  motto-ribbon.  Same  arms  as  the  John  C, 
Warren. 

910.  Warren.     The  Property  of  Samuel  \Varren.  Jan.     Provi- 

dence. 

The  name  is  printed  from  type  within  an  engraved 

border,  and  the  date,  1799.,  appears  in  MS, 

911.  Warren.      W.  Warren.     Theatre. 

Pictorial.  The  name  is  given  within  a  frame  of 
shield  shape,  above  which  a  pair  of  antlers,  trimmed 
with  oak  branches  and  festoons  of  oak  leaves,  is 
seen  ;  resting  between  them  are  a  book  and  looking- 
glass.     At  the  foot  of  the  frame  a  loving  cup. 

912.  Washington.     Bushrod  Washington. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Exitus  acta  pro- 
bat.  Nephew  of  the  President,  to  whom  Mount 
Vernon  descended.  This  plate  is  almost  identical 
with  the  Whitebread  plate  by  Dawkins.  The 
dragon  changes  places  with  the  long  spray  of 
flowers,  otherwise  they  are  the  same.  It  is  not 
known  whether  Dawkins  did  this  plate  or  not, 
but  presumably  he  copied  the  other  from  this, 
which  is  likely  to  have  been  an  imported  plate.  It 
is  not  at  all  an  uncommon  type  among  the  English 
plates. 

913.  Washington.     George  Washington. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Exitus  acta  pro- 
bat.     First  President  of  the  United  States. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     301 

914.  Waterhouse.     yohn  Waterhotise.     Halifax. 

Crest  only.     Motto,  Veritas  vincit  omnia. 

915.  Waties.     Thomas  IVaties. 

Armorial.  Of  South  Carolina.  An  eminent  judge 
for  a  period  of  some  forty  years.  Born,  1 760  ; 
died,  1828. 

916.  Watkins.     yohn  W.  WatJzins.     A.M. 

Armorial.     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     Motto,  Fortis  et 
fidelis.     Signed,  Rollinson  Set. 


917.  Watts,     yohn  Watts. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Forti  nan  deficit  telum.  A 
Loyalist  of  New  York,  whose  estates  were  confis- 
cated. Statue  in  Trinity  Churchyard,  New  York 
City. 

918.  Webster.     Danl.  Webstej: 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Vera  pro  gratis.  Name  in 
fac-simile  of  signature.  Statesman,  lawyer,  and 
orator. 


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302  American  Book-plates. 

919.  Welch.   D.  T.  Welch. 

Literary.  Similar  to  the  M.  W.  Day  plate.  Motto, 
Literatura  mentem  expandit. 

920.  Weld.     Isaac  Weld. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Verinn  atque 
deccns.     Traveller  and  author. 

921.  Welford.     Beverley  R.  Welford.     M.D. 

Motto,  The  wicked  man  borroiueth  and  returneth  not 
again.     Engraved  name-label.     Of  Richmond,  Va. 

922.  Wextworth.      Wenbvorth. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  En  Dicu  est 
tout.     Signed,  N.  Hard,  Sep.     Of  New  Hampshire. 

923.  Wethkrsfield.     Social Libj'aty,  Stepney  Society,  Wethers- 

field. 

Literary.  A  shelf  of  books  is  raised  upon  a  frame 
of  Chippendale  scroll-work,  and  has  a  ribbon 
draped  upon  the  front  of  it,  bearing  the  motto, 
Waste  not  a  moment.  Above  the  books  on  the 
shelf  a  winged  hour-glass  is  seen  under  the  folds  of 
a  draped  curtain.  Signed,  Doolittle  Sculpt.  This 
plate  is  also  found  with  the  signature  erased,  and 
the  following  line  added  in  fine  letters  under  the 
design  :  Annual  Meeting,  ist  Monday  in  Dec.  at 
6.  P.AI.  when  eveiy  book  is  to  be  returned. 

924.  Wetmore.      Charles  H.  Wetmore. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Virtus 
libertas  et  patria.  Signed,  Doolittle  Sculp.  The 
open  field  face  of  the  shield  is  used  for  the  number 
of  the  volume.     Of  Connecticut. 

925.  Wetmore.     Prosper  IVetmore. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Virtus 
libertas  et  patria.  The  bit  of  landscape  again 
comes  in,  as  so  often  in  the  work  of  this  engraver. 
Signed  on  an  open  scroll,  Maverick  Sculpt.  Of 
New  York. 

926.  Wetmore.      William  Wetmore. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Tentanda 
via  est.  Signed,  Revere  sc.  Some  proofs  of  this 
plate  are  found  without  the  signature,  having  been 
printed  before  it  was  signed.     Of  Massachusetts. 


Early  American  Book-plates.     303 

927.  Whatley.      Joseph  Whatley. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Pelle 
timorcm. 

928.  Wheeler.     David  B.  Wheeler. 

A  Masonic  plate.  The  full  sun,  eight-pointed 
star,  and  crescent  moon  are  above  the  name, 
while  below  it  are  the  square  and  dividers,  crossed  ; 
the  whole  enclosed  within  a  frame  of  ornamental 
type. 

929.  Wheelwright.     Natlil.  Wheelwright. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

930.  White.     Daniel  A.  White. 

An  engraved  name-label,  with  the  name  enclosed 
in  palm  branches,  and  the  mottoes  on  ribbons 
above  and  below.  Mtdtiim  legendiim.  Esse  quam 
videri. 

931.  Whitebread.     W  .  .  .  Whitebread.   (First  name  torn  off.) 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Pro  lege  et  rege. 
Signed,  Dawkins,  Fecit.     Of  New  York. 

932.  Whitridge.     The  Property  of  y.  B.  JVhitridge. 

Pictorial.  On  a  bit  of  ground  surrounded  by 
water,  Hope  stands  leaning  upon  her  anchor,  and 
raising  her  hand  towards  the  motto,  //;  God  we 
hope,  which  floats  on  a  ribbon  above  her.  Under 
the  name  a  second  motto.  Cut  est  amiens,  felix. 
Signed,  y.  R.  Penniman  Delt.  W.  B.  Aiiiiin.  Sc. 
Physician  at  Charleston,  S.C.,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  century. 

933.  Wilkes.     Charles  Wilkes. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Arcui  nieo  non  confido. 
Signed,  Rollinson  sc.     Of  New  York. 

934.  Williams.      Williams. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Of  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

935.  Willums.     Azarias  Williams. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Amicitia 
cum  libertate.     Signed,  Rollinson  Sculpt. 


304  American  Book-plates. 

936.    WiLLUMS.     GiiUelmi  Williams  ex  Insula  Antigua. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  A  beautiful  granite  canopy  is 
erected  on  the  shore  of  the  island  ;  a  view  of  the  sea 
is  afforded,  and  the  palmetto-trees  yield  a  grateful 
shade  ;  at  the  foot  of  the  stone-work  are  grouped  a 
globe,  scrolls,  telescope,  compasses,  books,  sextant, 
and  drawing  instruments  —  significant  of  the  tastes 
of  the  owner ;  the  arms  are  canned  upon  the  flice 
of  the  stone,  and  the  crest  is  protected  by  a  hood  of 
graceful  design  ;  flowers  in  long  garlands  are  trailed 
over  the  monument.  Signed,  ^S".  Ingram  fecit  a 
Paris.     A  very  beautiful  plate. 

937-     Williams.     Johannes  Williams  His  Book.     i6/g. 

The  oldest  dated  book-plate  we  have  ;  probably 
the  plate  of  the  first  minister  of  Deerfield,  Mass., 
whose  house  was  raided  by  the  Indians.  A  printed 
label. 

938.  Williams.     J^ohn  Williams,  Esqr. 

Armorial.  Late  Jacobean.  Motto,  Floriferis  tit 
apes  in  saltibus  omnia  libant  onuiia  ?ios.  Born, 
Wethersfield,  Conn.,  Sept.  11,  1762;  Yale,  1802; 
died,  1840.  This  plate  bears  some  resemblance  to 
the  plates  of  Elijah  Backus  and  Daniel  Waldo, 
both  in  design,  size,  and  execution. 

939.  WiLLL^MS.     John  Williams. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Floriferis 
tit  apes  in  saltibus  omnia  libant  omnia  nos.  Same 
as  the  preceding. 

940.  WiLLUMS.     John  Williams. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Y  cadam  ae 
cypwyn.     Of  Boston.     Circa  1767. 

941.  Williams.     John  C.  Williams. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Cognoscere 
occasionem.  Signed,  N.  H.  Sep.  Of  Massachusetts. 
Quite  similar  to  the  Jonathan  Jackson  plate  by  the 
same  engraver. 

942.  Williams.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  shield  is  thrown  under 
a  tree  with  a  confusion  of  other  things,  —  a  harp, 
lyre,  horn,  music-book,  violin  bow,  sword,   arrow. 


Early  Americmi  Book-plates,     305 

bow,  and  Indian  head-dress.  An  expanse  of  water 
at  the  right  is  illumined  by  the  rising  sun.  Signed, 
Harris,  sc.     Of  Massachusetts. 

943.  Willis.     Willis. 

x\rmorial.     Chippendale.     No  motto.     No  crest. 

944.  Willis.     Samuel  Willis. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto-ribbon  empty. 
Signed,  Thos.  Johns  ton.  Sc.  This  design  seems 
to  be  a  copy  of  one  of  Kurd's. 

945.  Wilson.     David  Wilson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Exactly  like  the  suc- 
ceeding, and  probably  the  same  copper  with  the 
name  changed. 

946.  Wilson.     James  Wilson. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Very  hand- 
some plate  in  the  style  of  Kurd's  best  design ;  a 
border  is  added,  which  is  unusual  with  him,  and  it 
is  twined  with  garlands  of  roses,  and  has  shells  in 
the  corners. 

947.  Wilson.     John  JVilson,  Barbadoes. 

Armorial.  Pictorial.  The  scene  is  in  the  tropics  ; 
a  cornucopia  pours  its  riches  of  fruit  upon  the 
ground,  just  below  the  oval  shield,  which  is  steadied 
by  a  winged  cherub,  who  gazes  off  into  the  clouds  ; 
the  background  shows  trees,  an  expanse  of  water, 
and  either  icebergs  or  snow-capped  mountains. 

948.  Wilson.     John  Wilson,  Kingston.     Jamaica. 

Pictorial.  The  name  is  given  on  an  open  book, 
which  is  surrounded  by  a  wreath. 

949.  WiNTHROP.      William  Winthrop. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Spes 
vincit  terrorem.     Signed,  S.  Hill. 

950.  Winthrop.     J.  W. 

Armorial.  (Winthrop  arms.)  Jacobean.  Plate 
of  John  Winthrop;  born,  Boston,  1681  ;  died  in 
England,  1747. 

951.  Wiseman.     Joseph  Wiseman. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto-ribbon 
empty.     Signed,  Vallance  Sc.     Of  Pennsylvania. 


3o6  American  Book-plates. 

952.    WiSNER.     Polydore  B.  Wisncr. 

Armorial  in  form.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto, 
Via  ad  cordon.  Signed,  Maverick  Sculpt.  Of 
New  York. 

953-   WoLCOTT.     Oliver  Wolcott. 

Armorial.  Jacobean.  No  motto.  Of  Connecticut. 
Signer  of  the  Declaration. 

954.  Wood.     Joseph  Wood. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Of  Penn- 
sylvania.    Colonel  in  Revolutionary  Army. 

955.  WoODP,RiDGE.      Win.  Woodbridge. 

A  plain  name-label,  with  the  name  and  the  motto, 
Wisely  for  PLEASURE  and  for  PROFPF  read : 
thus  hold  high  CONVERSE  with  the  MIGHTY 
dead,  enclosed  within  a  border  of  ornamental  type. 
Of  Connecticut.     Statesman  and  jurist. 

956.  \\'ORCESiER.      The  Property  of  the  JTorcester  Circulating 

Library  Company. 

First  Cost.  .  .  .     Fine  for  detention  per  day. 

Enclosed  in  a  woodcut  border ;  a  coin  showing  a 

monarch  with  the  wreath  of  victory  on  his  head, 

above.     Very  likely  to  have  been  printed  by  Isaiah 

Thomas. 

957.  W0RMEI.EY.     Ralph  Wornieley  of  Rosegill. 

Armorial.  No  crest.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Nunc 
mihi  mine  alii.  Books  used  in  the  ornamentation. 
Of  Virginia. 

958.  WoRMELEY.     Ralph  Wornieley  of  Rosegill. 

Armorial.  Same  arms  as  above.  Chippendale. 
Motto-ribbon  empty.  No  crest.  Not  the  same 
plate  as  the  preceding. 

959.  Wright.     James  Wright  Fsqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  No  motto.  Last  Royal 
Governor  of  Georgia. 

960.  WvxKOOP.     Augustus  Wynkoop. 

Armorial.  Supporters,  bacchantes  with  bottles  in 
hands  and  wine-cups  held  aloft,  with  scant  covering 
to  their  bodies.  On  the  shield,  beside  a  cask,  an 
old  man  holds  a  glass  before  a  young  boy,  evidently 


Early  Auicrican  Book-plates.      307 

in  warning  ;  a  grape-vine  grows  near  by.     An  eagle 
for  crest  spreads  his  wings  over  the  mantling.    The 
supporters  stand  upon  the  name-frame.     Of  New 
York. 
961     Wynkoop.      C.  C.  Wynkoop. 

Same  arms  as  the  above.     Of  New  York. 

962.  Wynkoop.     Peter  Wynkoop. 

Same  arms  as  the  above.  Supporters  are  now 
hideous  boys.  No  motto  on  the  motto-ribbon, 
upon  which  the  boys  stand.  Of  New  York.  Illus- 
trated in  "Curio,"  page  17. 

963.  Wythe.     George  Wythe,  Virginia. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Secundis  duhisque 
rectus.     Of  Virginia.     Signer  of  the  Declaration. 

964.  Yale  College.     The  Property  of  the  Brothers  in  Unity, 

Yale  College. 

Allegorical.  Bordered  by  an  oblong  frame,  the 
name  is  given  in  the  centre  of  the  design,  with  this 
verse  below, 

Friendship  and  Science  thus  combine 
To  aid  and  honour  our  design  : 
With  us  unite  an  equal  claim, 
And  share  alike  the  social  name. 

Above,  on  a  ribbon  bearing  the  motto,  E  parvis 
oriunter  magna,  two  grinning  females  mutually 
support  a  circular  frame,  in  which  the  crowd  of 
Brothers  is  seen  walking  bareheaded  under  a 
powerful  sun.  Omnes  in  uno  Concordia  is  on  the 
frame.  The  supporters  doubtless  depict  Friend- 
ship and  Science.  A  pile  of  books  between  them 
completes  the  inventory.  Signed,  JVm.  Taylor 
Deln.     A.  Doolittlc  Sculpt. 

965.  Yale  College.     Brothers  in  Unity. 

Allegorical.  Under  the  name  the  following  lines 
are  given :  —  ^  ^ 

Hermes  eloquio  potens  rccludit 
Pontes,  ecce,  suos  :  et  ampliora 
Vena  Pierii  fluunt  liquores : 
Atque  arces  reserat  suas  Alinerva, 


3o8  American  Book-plates. 

Above  is  a  delightful  engraving.  Minerva  helmeted 
and  robed  but  without  the  spear,  attended  by 
Hermes,  calls  the  attention  of  the  approaching 
group  of  young  men  to  the  pile  of  books  on  the 
ground  before  them,  and  also  to  Demosthenes, 
who  on  the  near-by  sea-shore  is  declaiming  vocifer- 
ously to  the  rolling  waves.  Signed,  E.  Tisdale 
Del.     S.  S.  Jocelyn  Sc. 

966.  Yale  College.     Brothers  in  Unity. 

Allegorical.  Beneath  the  name,  which  supports 
itself  in  mid-air,  Minerva  ( ?)  is  seated,  and  is 
directing  the  efforts  of  two  cherubs  who  are  at 
work  on  geographical  and  architectural  problems, 
as  evidenced  by  the  globe  and  capital  before 
which  each  bends ;  to  them  comes  a  third  cherub, 
and,  alighting  on  the  capital  before  one  of  the 
cherubs,  holds  out  a  scroll  on  which  is  written 
AAH0EIA.  The  goddess  calls  the  attention  of 
the  other  cherub  to  this  message.  Architectural 
features  abound  in  the  distance.  Signed,  O. 
Pelton.     Sc. 

967.  Y.ALE    College.     This    book    belongs    to   the    Linonian 

Meeting. 

A  view  of  the  college  chapel  and  one  of  the  halls 
is  shown  within  a  loop  of  a  ribbon  which  runs 
across  the  top  of  the  plate  ;  on  the  ribbon,  Con- 
cordia societatis  nostra  vinculum  est.  Two  clasped 
hands  below  the  name  are  enclosed  by  a  ribbon, 
on  which  is  the  word,  Amicitia.  Rude  quirks  and 
flourishes  are  introduced,  and  the  whole  appear- 
ance of  the  plate  is  rough. 

968.  Yale  College.     Lijionian  Library,  Yale  College. 

Allegorical.  In  the  immediate  foreground  a  youth, 
with  some  uncertainty  in  his  air,  submits  to  be  led 
by  the  hand  of  Minerva,  who  turns  to  cheer  him, 
and  points  to  the  temple  of  Fame  crowning  the 
summit  of  the  hill,  up  whose  tortuous  sides  the 
path  they  are  pursuing  leads  ;  Father  Time,  with 
discouraged  mien,  head  resting  on  his  hand,  sits 
upon   the   globe   amid   the   ruin   of   architectural 


Early  American  Book-plates.     309 

fragments,  grasping  his  faithful  scythe  in  the  right 
hand  ;  the  temple  of  Fame  is  surmounted  by  an 
angel,  who  is  blowing  mightily  on  the  trumpet  of 
the  goddess  who  presides  over  the  shrine ;  the 
word  Immortalitas  is  inscribed  across  the  entabla- 
ture ;  just  over  the  youth  and  Minerva,  in  a  cloudy 
swirl,  three  cherubs  hold  aloft  a  sheepskin,  on 
which  is  seen  LINONIA  Sept.  12.  lysS-  Quiescit 
in  perfecto.  Above  all  this  a  heart-shaped  shield  is 
divided  into  five  parts,  which  hold  a  pelican  in  her 
piety,  a  book-case,  a  dove  on  the  olive  branch,  the 
phoenix  rising  from  the  fire,  and  a  puppy  dog, 
whose  meaning  is  uncertain.  Scrolls  about  the 
shield  bear  the  motto,  Amicitia  concordia  soli 
noscimus.  A  cherub's  face  peers  over  the  shield. 
Signed,  Doolitflc  Si.     1802. 

969.  Yale  College.    Presented  to  the  Linonian  Society  by  ... . 

Allegorical.  The  name  is  on  a  curtain  draped 
beneath  the  picture  of  the  advancing  Minerva,  who, 
helmeted,  robed,  and  with  spear  in  hand,  is  seen 
approaching,  and  apparently  speaking  as  she 
comes  ;  behind  her,  seated  by  a  pile  of  books,  an 
attendant  maid  reclines  against  an  urn  of  flowers, 
and  with  a  sun-glass  draws  the  rays  of  the  sun  into 
strong  focus  upon  a  scroll  which  brings  into  plain 
sight  the  word  Yale.     Signed,  G.  Fairman. 

970.  Yale  College.     Moral  Library  Yale  College. 

Library  interior.  The  librarian  is  seated  by  the 
desk,  on  the  front  panel  of  which  the  name  is 
carved  ;  an  open  book  is  in  his  right  hand  ;  a  large 
globe  before  him,  and  shelves  of  books  behind  him  ; 
through  the  open  door,  which  appears  to  be  some 
distance  off,  across  the  tessallated  floor,  a  group  of 
students,  headed  by  a  professor  in  flowing  robes,  is 
seen.  Over  the  door  the  name.  Moral  Society,  is 
placed.  Above  all,  the  motto,  Virtus  et  scientia  ad 
utilitatem  dirigi/nt. 

971.  Yale  College.     Philotechniaji  Library. 

Pictorial.  The  front  of  a  Greek  temple  is  seen 
with  the  space  in  front  of  it  filled  with  the  emblems 


310  American  Book-plates. 

and  implements  of  the  arts  and  sciences.  The 
date,  1795,  is  seen  on  a  shield  in  the  centre ; 
probably  the  date  of  the  founding  of  the  library. 
Signed,  yos.  Perkins  sc  N.  York. 

972.  Yates.     Chris tr.  C.  Yates. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Ne  parcas  nee 
spernas.  Very  rough  work,  and  hardly  worthy  to 
be  classed  as  Chippendale.  Illustrated  in  "  Art 
Amateur,"  March,  1894. 

973.  Yates.     Peter  IV.  Yates.     Esqr. 

Armorial.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Nc  parcas  nee 
spernas.     Signed,  H.  D.  sc.     Of  New  York. 

974.  Young.     Alexander  Young. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Robori prudentia  praestat. 
Unitarian  clergyman  and  historian  of  Boston. 

975.  Young.    The  Property' of  Amnii B.  Young.  Lebanon.  N.H. 

A  small,  neatly  engraved  label. 

976.  Young.     Thomas  J .  Young. 

Rector  of  St.  Michael's  Church,  Charleston,  S.C. 
Born,  1803.     Three  plates. 

977.  Young.      William  Young. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  Laboi-e. 
This  plate  has  very  flowing  mantling,  which  termi- 
nates at  either  side  in  eagles'  heads  ;  from  their 
beaks  depend  the  slight  festoons  which  place  the 
plate  in  the  Ribbon  and  Wreath  class. 

978.  Unidentified,     (Name    defaced.)     Property  of 

Bookbinder,  U.  S.  A. 

Pictorial.     An   open   book ;   on  the   first   page,  a 

cradle  ;  on  the  second,  a  coffin ;  behind  the  book, 

a  sword,  quill,  and  anchor.     The  following  mottoes 

are  used  :  — 

See  some  strange  comfort  ethy  state  attend.    POPE. 

Ah,  when  the  dreatn  of  life  shall  be  passed,  what  will 
have  availed  all  its  agitation,  if  it  leave  tiot  one 
trace  of  utility  behind?     VOLNEY. 

Crescit  amor  7iiimmi. 

Stultum  est  in  alieno  foro  sigitare. 

A  very  rude  woodcut. 


Early  Aniericmt  Book-plates.     311 

979.  Unidentified.     (Name  defaced.) 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  soars  aloft,  bearing  an  oval 
frame  with  the  name  of  the  owner  upon  it ;  the 
broad  rays  of  the  sun  behind  the  eagle  light  up  the 
pine  trees  on  the  distant  hill-tops.  In  the  lower 
right-hand  corner  the  smoke  rises  from  the  chimney 
of  a  house  whose  roof  is  just  visible,  shaded  by  a 
peculiar  tree. 

980.  Unidentified.     (Name  defaced.) 

Pictorial.  An  eagle  holding  a  small  United  States 
shield  in  his  beak,  and  a  ribbon  on  which  the 
United  States  motto  is  given,  E  plujibus  iiiuiin. 
In  the  oval  beneath,  Use  this  carefully  and  return 
it  immediately.  A  Bible  under  all.  Signed,  W. 
Barber.  Sculpt. 

981.  Unidentified.     Armorial. 

Arms,  Vert  three  garbs  ppr.  Crest,  a  swarm  of 
bees  about  a  hive.  Chippendale.  Motto,  Libertas 
et patria  mea.     Signed,  H.  Dazvkins  Sculpt. 

982.  Unidentified.     Pictorial. 

Within  an  oval  frame  we  see  the  interior  of  a 
large  room,  which  might  be  a  library  but  looks 
more  like  a  school-room  ;  seated  at  a  desk  in  the 
centre  of  the  room  is  a  man  in  the  elaborate 
costume  of  the  gentleman  of  the  last  century ; 
books  are  before  him,  and  on  the  floor  beside  him  ; 
a  large  globe  is  at  hand  ;  the  appearance  of  the 
seated-  scholar  is  that  of  a  professor  waiting  for 
his  class  to  file  in.  The  name  is  given  upon  a 
ribbon  which  is  tied  above,  but  it  has  been  cut 
out  of  the  specimen  at  hand.  Signed,  A.  Godwin. 
Sculp. 


ADDITIONS  WHILE    PRINTING. 

983.    Boston.     Boston  Architectural  Library. 

A  large  label  made  up  of  type  ornaments  and  a 
woodcut  festoon. 


v) 


12  Aiiierican  Book-plates. 


9S4.    Champion.     Epaphroditiis  Champion,  Jr. 

Plain  armorial.  Motto,  Pro  rege  et patria.  Signed, 
P.  Maverick,  Sc. 

985.  Chin.     Henry  Chin. 

Armorial.     Virginia. 

986.  Edgar.      William  Edgar. 

Plain  armorial.     No  motto.     Of  New  Jersey. 

987.  Haverhill.     Haverhill  Library.     (Mass.) 

A  small  woodcut  label ;  festoons  and  an  ancient 
coin. 

9S8.    KuNZE.    Johann  Christopher  Kiinze,  Prediger  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

Pastor  of  a  Lutheran  Church  in  Philadelphia. 
Printed  label. 

989.  M.ALViANS.     Malvians. 

Pictorial.  A  skeleton  with  the  motto,  lllc  ego  quiad 
sanandos  vivos  seco  viortuos,  around  it. 

990.  Muhlenberg.     (Anonymous.) 

Armorial.  Motto,  Solus  minus  solus.  This  is 
probably  the  plate  used  by  the  brother  of  John 
Peter  Gabriel  Muhlenberg,  the  "  fighting  parson  " 
of  the  Revolution. 

991.  Oliver.     Francis  Johonnot  Oliver,  Boston. 

Armorial.  Crest  only.  Motto,  L  'amour  et  Vam- 
itie.  A  very  graceful  design  of  festoons  encloses 
the  name  and  motto. 

992.  Scott.    John  N.  D.  S.  Scott. 

Armorial.  Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Motto,  ///  God 
we  trust.     This  is  the  same  copper  as  No.  766. 

993.  Sumner.     Geo.  Sumner. 

Armorial.     Ribbon  and  Wreath.     No  motto. 

994.  Weiberg.    The  Property  of  Samuel  Weiberg :  ubi  libertas 

ibi  patria. 
Printed  label. 

995.  Wright.     Joseph  Wright. 

Literary.     Identical  with  the  George  Goodwin. 


A   CHRONOLOGICAL   LIST   OF  THE  DATED 
PLATES    UP   TO    1800. 


Johannes  Williams 

Francis  Page 

William  Penn 

Society  for  Propagating  the  Gospel .     . 

Thomas  Prince 

Samuel  Phillips 

William  Assheton 

William  R.  Ghiton 

The  Carpenters'  Co.  of  Philadelphia .     . 

Robert  Elliston 

John  Secombe 

Benjamin  Dolbeare 

Jacob  Gushing 

Thomas  Bering 

William  Lightfoot 

John  Burnet 

Joseph  Dudley 

Philemon  Robbins 

Benjamin  Greene 

Albany  Society  Library 

Jonathan  Smith 

East  Apthorp 

David  Routh 

American  Academy 

John  Coffin 

Richard  Beresford 

James  Otis 

Gabriel  Duvall 

Aaron  Putnam 

Thomas  Hall 

Rev.  Joseph  Fownes 

I.  Walmsey 

Sally  Richards 

Santa  JohannisEv.  Sig.  Coll.  Latomorum 
William  BarroU,  Chestertown  .... 
Thomas  O.  Selfridge 

3^3 


1679   • 

Label. 

1703   • 

Armorial. 

1703   • 

Armorial. 

1704   . 

Pictorial. 

1704  . 

Label. 

1707   . 

Label. 

I7I8  . 

Armorial. 

I7I8  . 

Armorial. 

1724   . 

.     Pictorial.' 

1725   • 

Armorial. 

1729   . 

Label. 

1739  • 

Label. 

1746   . 

Label. 

1749    . 

Armorial. 

1750   • 

Armorial. 

1754   • 

Armorial. 

1754   • 

Armorial. 

^755     • 

Label. 

1757    ■ 

Armorial. 

1759    • 

Pictorial. 

1760    . 

Label. 

1761     . 

Armorial. 

1762    . 

.     Armorial. 

1770    . 

Pictorial. 

1771     . 

Armorial. 

1772    . 

Armorial. 

1773    • 

Label. 

1778    . 

Label. 

178-    . 

Label. 

1787    . 

Armorial. 

1790    . 

Label. 

1792    . 

Armorial. 

1794    . 

Label. 

1794    . 

Pictorial. 

1795    • 

Label. 

1799    . 

Label. 

AN    ALPHABETICAL    LIST   OF   THE- 
SIGNED    PLATES. 


*  Plates  marked  thus  have  not  been  seen  by  the  writer,  and  the  exact 
manner  of  signing  has  not  been  communicated. 


Name,  Manner  of  Signing. 

.  f  Mains'oi  del. 

^^or^y^^ns {Afaven.kSa. 

Anderson A.  A/ii/erson.  Sculp. 

Andrews Cullender  Sc. 

Henry  Andrews S.  Harris,  Sc. 

Apprentices'  Library  (New  York) .  A.  Anderson.  Sc. 

Theodore  Atkinson iV.  Hard.  Sep. 

\Mlliam  King  Atkinson  ....  Cullender.  Sc. 

Richard  Tylden  Auchmuty      .     .  A  &^  S. 

*Jonathan  Baldwin Signed  by  Callender. 

*Luke  Baldwin Signed  by  Callender. 

Flamen  Ball F.  J^.  Maverick  ScL 

The  Library  Co.  of  Baltimore      .  S.  Allardice  Phi. 

Abraham  Bancker Maverick  Sculp. 

Charles  N.  Bancker Jones  Sc. 

Gerard  Bancker Dawkins  Scnlpsit. 

Charles  Beck N.  D.  Sc. 

William  Betts C.  P.  Harrison.  Del.  Set. 

*William  Beverly    ......  Signed  by  J,  Kirk. 

Absalom  Blackley Alaverick  Sep. 

Blakes'  Circulating  Library      .     .  S.  Hill  Sc. 

Thomas  W.  Blatchford  ....      W»i  D.  Smith.  Sc. 

Bloom  field J.  Trenchard. 

T.  Bond \V.  H. 

Boylston  Medical  TJbrary    .     .     .  Annin  ^  Smith. 

Boylston  Medical  Library  .     .     .     Callender  Sc. 

314 


A  List  of  the  Signed  Plates.     315 


Name. 
Philip  Brasher  .     . 
Benjamin  S.  Brooks 
David  Paul  Brown 

Jacob  Brown 

*T-homas  Brown 
Peter  A.  Browne 
John  Burnet 

John  Callender . 
Alpheus  Gary,  Jr. 
Thomas  Gary     . 
John  Ghambers 
Epaphroditus  Ghamp 
Gardiner  Ghandler 
John  Ghandler,  Jr. 
*Rufus  Ghandler 
SI.  Ghase      .     . 
Francis  Ghild    . 
Isaac  Ghild  . 
George  Glark    . 
G.  I.  Gleborne,  M.D. 
De  Witt  Glinton 
William  Gock    . 
Coffin  .... 
Hector  Goffin    . 
Golumbia  Gollege  Librar 
Gharles  INI.  Gonnolly 
Gushman      .     .     . 
James  S.  Gutting    . 
William  Gutting 
John  Guyler 
Francis  Dana 
Danforth 
John  Day 
M.  W.  Day  . 
Lewis  De  Blois 
Frederick  De  Peyster 
Thomas  Dering 
Doct.  I.  Dove 


J-- 


Manner  of  Signing. 

Maverick  Sep. 

A.D. 

C.  P.  H.  St. 
\  Engrvd  by  P.  R.  Maverick 
\      <5j  Libef-ty  Street. 

Signed  by  Hurd. 

Engraved  by  James  Akin. 

H.  Daivkins  Sculp.  17^4. 

Calender  Sc. 

A.  Gary  deb.     H.  Morse  Sc. 
Callender  Sep. 
E.  Gallaudet  Sculp. 
P.  Alaverick  Sc. 
P.  Revere  Sculp. 
N.  Hurd  Sculp. 
Signed  by  Hurd. 
Boyd  Sc. 

H.  Daivkins  Sculpt. 
N.  Dearborn  and  Son. 
J.  F.  Morin  Sc.  N.Y. 
Jarrett.  London. 
P.  R.  Maverick  Sculpt. 
Maverick  Sculpt. 
J.  Akin  Sculp 

J.  Akin  del.     F.  Kearny  Sc. 
Anderson  Sculp. 
J.  G.  Bolen.  104  B'way. 
Pulini.  Inc. 
Maverick  Set. 
P.  R.  Maverick  Set. 
Maverick  Sculpt. 
N.  H.  Sep. 
N.  H.  Sep. 
J.  Sniithers  Sculp. 
IV.  Chapin  del.  6^  Sc. 
Nathaniel  Hurd  Sculp. 
P.  R.  Maverick  Set. 
N.  Hurd  Sculp. 
Brooks  Sculp. 


3i6 


American  Book-plates. 


Name. 
James  Duane    .     . 
Philip  Dumaresque 
Robert  Henry  Dunkin 
Gabriel  Duvall  . 

Bryan  Edwards 

Barnard  Elliott 
Erasmus  Hall  Library 
William  Erving 

Farmington  Library 
Fenwick  . 
Eli  Forbes    .     . 
Ebenezer  Foot 
Isaac  Foster 
John  Francis     . 
John  Franklin   . 
Andrew  G.  Fraunces 

John  Walter  Gibbs 
*  James  Gibs  .     .     . 
James  Giles       .     . 
Henry  D.  Gilpin    . 
Joseph  Gorham 
J.  J.  J.  Gourgas      . 
Robert  Gracie  .     . 
Henry  Hale  Graham 
Francis  Green  .     . 
Benjamin  Greene  . 
David  Cireene  . 
Thomas  Greene,  Jr. 
William  Greenleaf 
David  Stoddard  Greenough 

Robert  Hale  . 
J.  W.  Hamersley 
Rich'd  Harrison 
Harvard  College 
Harvard  College 
Harvard  CoUeore 


Manner  of  Signing, 
H.  D.  feci. 
N.  Hurd  Sculp. 
I.  H. 
T.S. 

Ashby  Sculp  Russell  Court 

London. 
P.  R.  Maverick. 
Maverick  Sculpt.  New  York. 
Callender  Set. 

M.  Bull's  &-  T.  Lee's  Sculp 
J.  Smither  Sc. 
J.  M.  Furnass  St. 
Maverick  Set. 
N.  Hurd  Sept. 
Callender  Sculp. 
J.  Turner  Sculp. 
Maverick  Sep. 

Abernefhie  Sculp. 

Signed  by  INLaverick. 

Maverick  Sculp. 

C.  G.  Chi  Ids. 

W.  Smith  Sculp. 

P.  L. 

Lewis  Sculp. 

J.  Smither  Sc. 

N.  Nurd  Sculp. 

N.  H.  Sep. 

Revere  scp. 

N.  LLurd  Sep. 

N.  Hurd  Sep. 

William  Greenough  fecit. 

N.  Hurd  Sep. 
Faithorne. 
Rollinson  Sculpt. 
N.  Hurd  Sculp. 
N.  Hurd,  Bosto?u 
A.  Bo7ven. 


A  List  of  the  Signed  Plates.     317 

Name.  Manner  of  Signing. 

Harvard  College Andretv  Filner. 

Harvard  College H.  Billings  del.  C.  G.  Smith 

Hasty  Pudding  Library  .     .     .  Callender  Sc. 

Barrack  Hays /.  Hutt  Sculp 

Eli  as  Hicks P.  Maverick  S. 

Elias  Hicks Rollitison  Set. 

Whitehead  Hicks H.  Dawkius  Sculpt. 

Phillip  L.  Hoffman     ....  Maverick  Sculpt.  N^eiu  York. 

William  Hooper N.H.  Sep. 

Francis  Hopkinson  |  zr    r^      i  ■      o     jj. 

T        ,-.-%.  one  copper  H.  Dawkins  Sculp. 

Joseph  Hopkinson  I  ^  ^  ^ 

,,         .       o     •  .    T  -1  [  P.   R.   Maverick  Set  No  3 

Horanian  Society  Library    .     .  ■        ^  v^     j  7kt\z 

^  ■'  [       Crown  Street  NY. 

*Archibald  Hunter       ....     Signed  by  Dawkins. 

,.,,.'  Ens:rd  b\  P.  R.Maverick  6'^ 

William  J.  Hunter      ....  r  /     1    c^i    a/       t^    z. 

•'  Libert^'  .St.  New  York. 


Jonathan  Jackson  .     . 

.     .     N.H.  Sep. 

The  Bishop  of  Jamaica 

j  Griffith    <S-    Wiegells  3    . 
■     *  [      James  St.  London. 

Robert  Jenkins      .     . 

.     .     N  Hurd. 

John  L  Johnson     .     . 

.     .     Maverick  St. 

John  Johnston  .     .     . 

.     .     Maverick  Sculpt. 

Thomas  Johnston  .     . 

.     .     Maverick  Sculp  N.  Y. 

Samuel  Jones     .     .     . 

.     .     Dawkins  Sc. 

Benjamin  S.  Judah 

.     .     Maverick  Sculpt. 

John  Keese  .... 

.     .     Maverick  Sculpt. 

John  Keese  .... 

.     .     Maverick  Set. 

Peter  Kemble   .     . 

.     .    J.  Lewis. 

Rufus  King  .... 

.     .     Maverick  Sculpt. 

Isaac  L.  Kip     .     .     . 

.     .     Maverick  Sculpt. 

Leonard  Kip     .     .     . 

.     .     B.  Brown  Sc. 

Benjamin  Kissam  .     .     . 

.     .     LL.  Dawkins  Lnv.  et  Sculp. 

Ex  Libris  L .     . 

.     .     P.  Riera. 

Ladd 

.     .     S.  Felwell  Sculpt. 

Edward  R.  Laurens    . 

.,    .     Stout  del  et  Sculpsit. 

John  Lee      

.     .     S.  Ale  in  tire. 

John  Lenthel     .     .     .     . 

.     ,     Thackara. 

St. 


3i8  American  Book-plates. 

Name.  Manner  of  Signing. 

Edward  Livingston     ....  Maverick  Sculpt. 

Maturin  Livingston     ....  Maverick  Sculpt. 

Peter  R.  Livingston    .     .     .     .  N.  Hiird  Sep. 

William  Smith  Li\ingston     .     .  Maverick  Sculpt. 

John  Lowell N.  Hurd  Sep. 

John  Lowell,  Jr Annin  ^  Smith  Sc. 

John  Lowell,  Jr A  &=  S. 

Gary  Ludlow JV.  Smith  sculpt. 

Charles  Ludlow W.  Smith. 

George  Ludlow Rollinson  Set. 

John  Gook  Ludlow     .     .     .     .  H.  D.  Sc. 

Gab.  W.  Ludlow H.  D.  Sc. 

W'm.  T.  jMcGoun Rollinson,  S. 

Bloomfield  Mcllvaine      .     .     .  :    ,'-^^   ^   '       '   o   " 

1  J.  H.  ^icymour  iyc. 

Andrew  McKelden     ....  Leonard  Sculpt. 

Hugli  McLean Maverick  Set. 

Henry  McMurtrie Smither  Sculp. 

Henry  MclNIurtrie Fairman  del.  Kearny  Sc. 

John  Magill J.  Smither  Set. 

Peter  ]\Ianigault Vates  Fecit  Royal  Exchange 

Henry  ALirchant N.  //.  Sc. 

John  Marston N.  Nurd  Sculp. 

Massachusetts  Medical  Society  Callender  Sc. 

Peter  INLvsterton Maverick  Sculpt. 

Maxwell Maverick  Sculpt. 

Peter  Middleton,  M.D.   .     .     .  J.  Lewis  Sc. 

Horatio  Shepheard  Moat     .     .  Rollinson. 

Nathl.  F.  Moore P.  Maverick. 

William  Morris Shallus.  Sculpt. 

Timothy  Newell /.  Thomas  print. 

New  York  Gollege  of  Pharmacy  Rollinson  Sc.New  York. 

New  York  Society  Library  .     .  E.  Gallaudet  Sc. 

■vT       ■ir    1   o     •  4.    T  -1  !  En^rd  by  P.  R.  Maverick. 

New  \ork  Society  Library  .     .  :       ^     t-i     ^    c^^ 

■'  ^  [       Oj  Liberty  Street. 

New  York  Society  Library  .     .  Maverick  Set  Crown  Street. 

George  W.  Norris IV.  G.  M. 

Isaac  Norris Jas.  Turner  Sc, 


A  List  of  the  Signed  Plates.     319 


Name. 
Lewis  Morris  Ogden 
Orphan  Asylum 
Samuel  Osborne     . 

Francis  Panton,  Jr. 
John  Parke  . 
John  Parkman 
*W.  Paulding 
A.  L.  Pierson 
Edmd.  Penn 
Edward  Pennington 


Library  Co,  of  Philadelphia 


Philotechnian  Library 
William  L.  Pierce  . 
Charles  Pierpont  . 
John  Pintard  .  . 
John  Pintard,  LL.D. 
William  Popham  . 
Porcellian  Library 

John  Poulson    .     . 

William  H.  Prescott 
Halcott  B.  Pride    . 
By  the  name  of  Prince 
Sam'l  Provoost 
Samuel  Pruyn    .     . 


Manner  of  Signing. 
P.  Maverick  Sc. 
L.  Siinond  del —  Seney  Sc 
N.  Hiird  Sep. 

Maverick  Sep. 

I.  S.  Sculp. 

Russell  and  Cutler  printers. 

Signed  by  ]\Laverick, 

Annin  6^  Smith  Sc. 

T.  Baddick. 

J.  J.  Plocher  Sc 
r  Printed  by  Zachariah  Poul- 
I       son  jun.  No.  io6  Chestnut 
I      street. 

Jos.  Perkins  sc  N.  York 

Maverick  Sculpt. 

S.  Hill. 

Maverick  Set. 

Anderson. 

Maverick  Sep. 

F.  Mitchell  Del. 
J  Printed  by  Zachariah  Poul- 
\      son  Junior. 

A  &'  S. 

Maverick  Sculp. 

Wight  man. 

Maverick  Sculpt. 

D.  W.  Wilson  Sc. 


one 


John  Randolph  of  the  \ 

Middle  Temple,        \    ""^       \BATH,  I.  Skinner. 
Peyton  Randolph,        J  ^^PP^^  J 

B.  J.  Raphael,  M.D Roliun    and  Co's  Louisville 

Ky. 

Redwood     Library,     Newport, 
R.L 


Henry  Reverly  .  . 
Jacob  Roome  .  . 
John  L.  C.  Roome 


Drawn  by  James  Stevens 
Civil  Engr.  Engd  W.  D, 
Terry,  Newport. 

F.  Kirk. 

H.  Dawkins  Sculpsit. 

H.  Dawkins  Sculpsit. 


320  Americaji  Book-plates. 


Name. 
Rosseau  .     .     . 
Thomas  Russell 

Rutledge .     .     . 

Sir  John  St.  Clair 
James  Samuels . 
Daniel  Sargent,  Jr. 
Epes  Sargent     . 
William  Seton  . 
Peter  Silvester  . 
John  Sitgreaves 
James  Scott  Smith 
John  Adam  Smith 
Thomas  Smith,  Jr. 
Thomas  J.  Smith 

*William  Smith  . 
William  P.  Smith 
Joshua  Spooner 
Richard  Sprigg 
William  Spry     . 
Thomas  N.  Stanford 
John  Stewart 
William  L.  Stone 
Samuel  Stringer 

*John  Sturges 
John  Sullivan     . 
James  Swan  .     . 
William  Sword  . 

William  Taylor . 
Teachers'  Union,  St. 

Church     .     . 
James  Thompson 
Thomas  Tillotson 
John  Tomlinson 
Nathaniel  Tracy 
Andrew  Tyler    . 
Joseph  Tyler 
Dudley  Atkins  Tyng 
P.  I.  Van  Berkel    . 


George's 


Manner  of  Signing. 

Karst. 

Callender  Sc. 
{  S.  C.  Barnes  6^  Co.  Coven- 
1.      try  Street. 

Ja.  Turner  Philada  Sculpt, 
H.  Dmvkins  Philada  Fecit. 
Callender  Sc. 
P.  Revere  Sculp.  . 
Maverick  Sculpt. 
Child  Sculpt. 
Maverick  Sep  Neiv  York. 
Maverick  Sculp. 
Rollinson  Set. 
Alaverick  Sculpt. 
Signed  by  Maverick. 
Maverick  Sculpt. 
Ihomas  Johnston  Sculp. 
N.  Hurd  Sep. 
T.  Sparrow. 
JV.  S/ni til's. 
Rollinson. 

J.  Jones  Sc.  Quebec. 
R.  Raiudon.  Alby. 
H.  D.  fecit. 
Signed  by  Maverick. 
J.  Callender  Sep. 
Callender  Sc. 
H.  D.  Fecit. 


Maverick  Set. 

-  Rollinson. 


P.  Alavej'ick,  Durand  ^^  Co. 
Maverick  Sculpt  New  York. 
H.  D.  fecit. 
N.  H.  Sep. 
N.  H.  Sculp. 
Johnson. 
Callender  Sp. 
Maverick  Sep. 


A  List  of  the  Signed  Plates.     321 


Name. 
K.  K.  Van  Rensselaer 
Richard  Varick      .     .     . 
Josias  Short  Vavasour 

Virguiia  Council  Chamber 

Solomon  Vose  .... 


Wall 

John  W.  Watkins,  A.M. 
Wentworth   .... 
Stepney  Library,  Wethersfield 
Charles  H.  Wetmore 
Prosper  AVetmore  . 
William  Wetmore  . 
W Whitebread 

J.  B.  Whitridge      . 

Charles  Wilkes  .     . 

■ Williams  . 

Azarias  Williams  . 
Gulielmi  Williams  . 
John  C.  Williams  . 
Samuel  Willis  .  . 
William  Winthrop  . 
Joseph  Wiseman  . 
Polydore  B.  Wisner 


Manner  of  Signing. 

Maverick  Sep. 

A.  Billings  Sculpt. 

H.  Dawkins  Sc. 
f  Dent  Sculpt  Bull  Alley  Lom- 
\      hard  Street  London. 

Callender  Sc. 

J.  D.  Stout,  N.Y. 

Rollins  on  Set. 

N.  Hurd  Sep. 

Doolittle  Sculpt. 

Doolitfle  Sculp. 

Maverick  Sculpt. 

Revere  Sc. 

Dawkins  Fecit. 
I/.  R.  Penniman  Delt.  W.B. 
[      Annin  Sc. 

Rollinson  Sc. 

Harris  Sc. 

Rollinson  Sculpt. 

J.  Ins;ram  fecit  a  Paris. 

N.  H.  Sep. 

Thos.  loiinston,  Sc. 

S.  Bill. 

Vallance  Sc. 

Maverick  Sculpt. 


■n     iU       •    TT  -^   /^7  1    r'  11       \  f  ^Vm.  Taxlor  Dclu, 
Brothers  m  Unity  (Yale  College)  -^  ^_  ^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^;_ 

Brothers  in  Unity  (Yale  College)  j   ^-.'^^    i     ,,     '^^' 


Brothers  in Unity(Yale  College)  - 

Linonian  Library  (Yale  College) 
Linonian  Society  (Yale  College) 
Peter  W.  Yates 


O.  Pelton  Sc. 

P.  R.  Maverick  Set   No. 

Crotun  Street,  N.Y. 
Doolittle  Sc. 
G.  Fairman. 
H.  D.  Sc. 


Unidentified W.  Barber  Sculpt. 

Unidentified H.  Daivkins  Sculpt. 

Unidentified A.  Godwin  Sculp. 


322 


American  Book-plates. 


A  glance  at  the  above  list  shows  that  our  early 
engravers  had  no  set  rule  by  which  to  record 
their  names  on  plates  which  they  engraved  ;  they 
used  full  names  or  initials  as  the  fancy  seized 
them,  or  the  room  on  the  plate  demanded.  In 
the  word  chosen  to  denote  the  fact  of  engraving 
a  great  diversity  is  seen,  though  by  far  the  most 
used  sculpsit  or  its  abbreviations. 

Hurd  and  Callender  seem  to  have  been  the 
most  methodical,  as  they  used  one  form  a  good 
deal.  Dawkins  had  several  styles,  and  Maverick 
had  one  or  two,  but  was  pretty  certain  to  use  an 
abbreviation  of  sculpsit. 


A  LIST  OF  THE  MOTTOES  FOUND  UPON 
THE  EARLY  AMERICAN  BOOK-PLATES, 
WITH   TRANSLATIONS. 

In  the  Introduction  to  his  "  Handbook  of  Mottoes,"  Mr.  C.  N. 
Elvin  separates  the  mottoes  into  the  following  four  classes  :  — 

I.    Mottoes  which  have  no  reference  to  the  name  or   the 

armorial  bearings  of  their  users. 
II.    Mottoes  which  have  a  direct  reference  to  the  bearings. 

III.  Mottoes  which  have  a  punning  reference  to  the  name. 

IV.  Mottoes   which    have   a   reference    to    both    name   and 

bearings. 

While  all  these  classes  are  represented  in  the  following  Hst 
of  mottoes  and  quotations  taken  from  the  early  American 
Book-plates,  such  a  classification  is  hardly  adapted  to  the  very 
limited  number  of  mottoes  employed,  and  we  should  divide 
them  into  but  two  general  classes,  under  which,  however,  a 
number  of  subdivisions  will  occur  to  the  reader. 

1.  The  family  mottoes  :  used  either  as  a  matter  of  course 
or  with  a  reasonable  pride  in  the  possession. 

2.  The  mottoes  which  are  the  choice  or  selection  of  the 
owner  of  the  plate  :  in  this  are  included  quotations  from  the 
classic  writers  of  both  poetry  and  prose,  mottoes  of  a  patriotic  " 
nature,  of  a  moral  and  of  an  educational  character,  as  well  as 
others  in  Hghter  vein. 

Plates  are  found,  too,  that  have  the  family  motto  and  one  of 
private  suitability  in  addition.  The  expressions  against  the 
lending  of  books  and  the  lines  directing  the  attention  to  the 
value  of  good  reading,  and  kindred  sentiments,  mentioned  in 
previous  chapters,  are  not  included  here. 

The  translations  will  be  found  rather  "  free  "  in  many  cases, 
and  it  will  need  but  a  casual  glance  at  the  construction  of  some 
of  the  Latin  phrases  to  see  that  such  a  freedom  is  necessary. 

323 


324  American  Book-plates. 

'AKPOrQVIAlOY  'OVTES'IH^OY   XPI^TOY.  (Eph.ii.  20.) 

Jesus  Christ  himself  being  the  chief  corner-stone.    Andover 

'J'heol.  Sk.m. 
'AAH0EIA.     Truth.     ]>rothers  in  Unity  (955). 
(3€\TLun'.u  oi'St8a^u6.     Rather  virtue  than  learning.     Stith. 
El^  <PAOt..     Into  the  Hght.     Bancroft. 
'Epavvare   ras   ypd(j>ii<;.  (John  V.  39.)     Search  the  Scriptures. 

Smith  (776). 
07;yet  (fypeva  to  lySw  Tex^oiv.     Pursuit  of  j)leasure  sliarpens  the 

wits.     Ph(Enix  Society. 
Kara  (tkottov  8iwkw.  (Phil.  iii.  14.)     I  press  toward  the  mark. 

PlXTAKl). 

KHPY^^OMEN  XPI^TON  'E^TAUYPQMENON.  (i  Cor. 
i.  23.)     We  preach  Christ  crucified.     Conn.  Theo.  Inst. 

Aoyta  ZwvTtt.     Living  oracles.     Columbia  College. 

6  Aoyos  oo-os  d\r]dua  ia-TL.  (John  xvii.  17.)  Thy  word  is  truth. 
Andover  Theol.  Inst. 

Tov  KOL  OLTTo  yXu>(T(Trj<;  /xiXiTo^  yXvKLWv  pitv  avhrj.  From  his  lips 
flowed  words  sweeter  than  honey.  Virginia  Council 
Chamber. 

Al?  initio  Dens  providebit.  God  will  provide  from  the  begin- 
ning.   Dove. 

Ad  astra  per  aspera.    To  the  stars  through  difficulties.    JMinot. 

Adversis  i7iajor,  par  secimdis.  Greater  than  adversity,  a  match 
for  prosperity.     Jarvis. 

Aestate  hyeme  que  idem.    In  age  and  winter  unchanged.    Green. 

Aliis  quod  ab  aliis.  For  others  because  by  others.  Cal- 
laway. 

Altera  merces.     Another  reward.     McLean. 

Altius  tendo.     I  reach  higher.     Kinloch. 
'  Amicitia.     Friendship.     Linonl4n  Society  Library. 

Amicitia  concordia  soli  nosciinus.  We  alone  learn  in  friend- 
ship and  harmony.     Linonian  Society  Library. 

Amicitia  cum  libertate.     Friendship  with  liberty.     Williams. 

Amor  vincit  naturae.     The  love  of  nature  conquers.     Gibbes. 

Amore  patriae.     By  the  love  of  country.     Scott. 

Ante  victoriam  ne  cane  triumphum.  Sing  not  of  triumph  before 
the  victory.     Thompson. 

Arcui  meo  non  confido.     I  trust  not  to  my  bow.     Wilkes. 

Ars  lofiga,  vita  brevis.    Art  is  long  and  life  is  fleeting.    Priestley, 

At  re  non  impetu.     By  reason,  not  by  force.     Hunter. 


A  List  of  Mottoes,  325 

Auctor p7'etiosa  facit.  The  Giver  makes  them  valuable.  Lennox. 
Audacter.     Boldly.     Ewing. 

Aiide  fieri  justum.     Dare  to  do  the  right.     Parker. 
Auspice  Christo.     Under  the  guidance  of  Christ.     Davis. 
Aut  mors  aut  vita  decora.     Either  death,  or  an  honorable  life. 

Livingston. 
Aut  nunquam  tantis  aut  pe)fice.     Either  do  not  attempt,  or 

complete.     Heming. 

Be  sure.     Pasley. 

Beata  Dotnus,  cusfodita  sic  cuja  Deo  Domino  est     Blessed  the 

home,  so  guarded  by  the  Lord  God.     Brasher. 
Beauty  and  Grace.     Smith. 
Bella  virtus.     Courageous  in  war.     Keese. 
Beware  my  edge.     Gibbs. 

Bona  que  honesta.     Good  things  and  honest.     Jackson. 
Bona  vince  malum.     Overcome  evil  with  good.  •  Elliston. 

Carpe  diem.  (Hor.  Od.  i.  77.)     Seize  the  present  opportunity. 

Hoffman. 
Carpe  diem  :  postero  ne  credo.     Seize  the  present :  trust  not 

the  future.     Cutting. 
Cassis  tutissima  virtus.     Virtue  is  the  safest  helmet.     Knights 

OF  the  Square  Table. 
Cave.     Beware.     Parker. 
Cavendo  tutus.     Safe  by  caution.     Dana. 
Chacun  a  son  goiU.     Each  to  his  own  taste.     Smith. 
Cherish  virtue.     King. 

Christi  servitus  vera  libertas.     The  service  of  Christ  true  lib- 
erty.    Vaughan. 
Christo  et  ecclesia.     For   Christ   and  the  church.     Harvard 

College  Library. 
Cito  pede  praeterit  aetas.     With  swift  foot  old  age  comes  on. 

Sargeant. 
Clarior  hinc  honos.     Hence  the  brighter  honor.     Buchanan. 
Claris   dextera  factis.  (Virg.  ^ti.  vii.  474.)     A    right    hand 

employed  in  glorious  deeds.     Byam. 
Clibor  ne  sceame.     Cliborne. 
Cognoscere  occasionem.    Recognize  the  opportunity.    Newton- 

Williaisis. 
Colendo  crescent.     By  cultivating  they  increase.     Livius. 


326  American  Book-plates. 

Commmiiter  bona  profundere  Deorinn  est.  It  is  the  manner 
of  the  gods  to  lavish  good  upon  all.  Philadelphla.  Libr.a.rv 
Co. 

Concordia  societatis  nostra  vinculum  est.  Concord  is  the  bond 
of  our  society.     Linoxian  Society  Library. 

Confido  in  Domino.     I  trust  in  God.     Sedgwick. 

Conquer  death  by  virtue.     Sherman. 

Consilio  manuque.     By  counsel,  and  by  the  hand.     Peirson. 

Consilio  non  impetu.     By  counsel  not  by  force.     Agnew. 

Coronat  virtus  cultores  suos.  Virtue  crowns  her  worshippers. 
Clarke. 

Cor  unum  ira  inea.     ]\Iy  whole  heart  in  my  wrath.    Tomlinson. 

Courage  sa7is  peur.     Courage  without  fear,     Lewis. 

Crescit  amor  nummi.  The  desire  for  riches  increases.  Un- 
identified Plate, 

Cui  est  amiens  felix.    Happy  he  who  has  a  friend.    Whitridge. 

Dabit  otia  Deus.     God  will  give  peace.     Brisbane. 

De  i?iterio?-e  templo  socius.  A  comrade  from  within  the  temple. 
Horsmanden. 

Decus  virtuti  soli.     Honor  to  virtue  alone.     Ludlow. 

Delectando  pariterque  monendo.  By  pleasing  while  admonish- 
ing.    ALackay. 

Deo  dirigente  crescendum  est.  We  must  prosper,  while  God 
directs.     Lowell. 

Deo  duce  perseverandum.  I  will  persevere  under  the  guidance 
of  God.     Jay. 

Deo  et  amicitiae.     For  God  and  friendship.     Forman. 

Deo  regique  debeo.     I  owe  duty  to  God  and  the  king.    Johnson. 

Deo  spes  niea.     God  my  hope.     Thornton. 

Depressa  resujgo.     I  rise  after  defeat.     Pintard. 

Deus  amici  et  nos.     God,  our  friends,  and  ourselves.     Pell. 

Deus  dabit.     God  will  grant.     Fish, 

Deus  dux  certus.     God  a  safe  leader.     Primage. 

Deus  meumque  jus.   God  and  my  right.  Supreme  Council,  33d°. 

Deus  nobis  Jiacc  otia  fecit.  (Virg.  Ec.  i.  vi.)  God  hath  given 
us  this  tranquillity.     Smith. 

Deus  providebit.     God  will  provide.     Dove. 

Dictis  factisque  simplex.  Simple  in  words  and  deeds.  Gilpin. 
Rogers. 

Dieu  defend  de  droit.     God  defends  the  right.     Boucher. 


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Disce  pati.     Learn  to  endure.     Duncan. 

Discretio  moderatrix  virtutiim.     Discretion  mistress  of  virtues. 

QUINCV. 

Duce  natiira  seqiior.     I  follow  the  lead  of  Nature.     Holyoke. 
Ducit  amor  patriae.     Love  of  country  leads  me.     Phillips. 
Dicm  clarum  tcueam.     While  I  hold  to  glory.     Penn. 

This  is  not  the  complete  motto  of  the  family  of  Penn  of  Stoke 
Pogis;  it  should  be,  Dum  clarum  rectum  taneatn,  which  means, 
While  I  hold  to  glory  let  me  hold  to  right. 

Dum  spiro  spero.  While  I  breathe  I  hope.  Auchmuty.  Mor- 
rison.    Swan. 

Dum  vivimus  vivamus.  While  we  live  let  us  live.  Porcellian 
Society  Library. 

E  parvis   oriuntur   magna.     From   small   things  great  arise. 

Brothers  in  Unity. 
E  pluribus    unum.      One    from    many.      Guilford    Library. 

McKelden.     U.  S.  Army.     Unidentified  Plate. 
Emollit  mores.     She  civilizes.      New  York  Society  Library. 
En  dat    Virginia   quai-tam.      Behold   Virginia   furnishes   her 

fourth.     ViRGiNL\  Council  Chamber. 
En  Dieu  est  tout.     In  God  is  everything.     Connolly.     Went- 

WORTH. 

En  esperance  Je  vie.     I  live  in  hope.     Brown. 

Ense  petit  placidam  sub  iibertate  quietem.     With  the  sword  he 

strives  for  calm  quiet  under  the  reign  of  Uberty.     Mass. 

Library  of  the  General  Court. 
Esse  et  videri.     To  be  and  to  seem  to  be.     Duer. 
Esse  potius  quam  habere.     To  be  rather  than  to  have.     Min- 

TURN. 

Esse  quam  videri.     To  be  rather  than  to  seem.     Archdeacon. 

DuER.     Fendall.     Tyng.     White. 
Et  mea  messis  erit.     And  mine  will  be  the  harvest.     Denny. 
Et  si  ostendo  non  jacta.     Altho'  I  show,  tell  it  not  abroad. 

Ogden. 
Ex  cando7'e  decus.     Honor  from  sincerity.     Marshall. 
Ex  necessitate.     Through  necessity.     Low. 
Excelsior.     Higher.     Varick. 
Exemplum  adest  ipse  hotno.     Man  himself  furnishes  a  pattern. 

Franklin. 
Exitus  acta  probat.    The  end  shows  the  deed.     Washington. 


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Exstant  rede  factiis  praemia.     Rewards  await  right   actions. 
Coffin. 

Pais  bien  crains  rein.     Do  well,  fear  nothing.     Golden.     Pin- 

TARD. 

Faithful  and  brave.     Uniacke. 

Fama  praestante  praestantior  virtus.      Virtue    more    glorious 

than  glorious  fame.     Morgan. 
Fama  sed  virtus  non  mofiatur.     Fame,  but  not  virtue,  will  die. 

Ingersoll. 
Fare  fac.     Say  and  do.     Fairfax. 
Fari  aude.     Dare  to  speak.     Child. 
Fari  quae  sentiat.     To  speak  what  he  may  think.     Apthorp. 

Randolph.     Tyler. 
Fiat  justitia.     Let  justice  be  done.     Bro\vne. 
Fide   et  amicitia.      By   fidelity   and    friendship.      Porcellian 

Society  Library. 
Fide,  sed  cui  vide.     Trust,  but  in  whom  take  care.     Ludlow, 
Fidelity.     Paulding. 

Fidevi  servabo.     I  will  keep  faith.     Emerson. 
Fidem  servabo  genusque.     I  will  be  true  to  my  faith  and  my 

race.     Smith. 
Fidem  sen'at  vinculaque  solvit.     He  keeps  faith,  and  breaks 

his  chains.     Cadena. 
Fides  scutum.     Faith  a  shield.     Bruen. 
Finis  coronat  opus.     The  end  crowns  the  work.     Smith. 
Firm.     Stearns. 
Floriferis  ut  apes  in  saltibus  omnia,  libant  omnia  nos.     As  bees 

in  the  flowery  meadows  taste  all,  so  we  taste  of  all.    Williams. 
Flourish  in  all  weathers.     Erving. 
Follow  reason.     Spooner. 

Fors  et  virtus.     Fortune  and  virtue.     De  Lotbiniere. 
Forti  non  deficit  telum.     The  brave  lack  not  weapons.     Watts. 
Fortior  quo    rectior.     He  is    strongest  who  is   nearest    right. 

Sargent. 
Fortis  etfidclis.     Brave  and  faithful.     Watkins. 
Fortis  etfidus.     Brave  and  trusty.     Middleion. 
Fortis  et  Veritas.     Brave  and  truthful.     March. 
Fortiter .'    Ascende  .'     Courage  !     Climb  !      Erasmus    Hall 

Library. 
Fortiter  et  fideliter.     Boldly  and  faithfully.     Cox. 


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Fortitudo  et  justitia.     Bravery  and  justice.     Judah. 

Fortiina   perit,   hotiesfas   7nanet.      Fortune   perishes,  honesty 

endures.     Beete. 
Foy  en  Dieu.     Faith  in  God.     Bartram. 
Frangas  non  flectas.     You  may  break,  not  bend.     Blanc. 
Freedom  and  Unity.     Stevens. 
Fiirtli  —  Fortune.     Murray. 

Gaudeo.     I  rejoice.     Brown. 

Gaiidia  magna  nuncio.     I  bring  tidings  of  great  joy.     Scott. 

Gloria.     Glory.     Chauncey. 

God  grant  grace.     Gracie. 

Habeo  pro  jus  fasque.     I   hold   by   human  and  divine   right. 

CUSHMAN. 

Haec  etiam  parentihus.    This  also  for  those  who  obey.    Hooper. 

Hazat'd  zitfoj-^vard.     Seton. 

Hermes  eloquio  potens  recludit 

Fontes,  ecce,  suos :  et  ampliora 

Vena  Pierii  fluunt  liqiiores  : 

Atque  arces  reserat  suas  Minerva. 

Behold,  Hermes,  powerful  in  eloquence,  discloses  his  foun- 
tains :  and  Pierian  liquors  flow  forth  from  the  ample  spring. 
And  again  Minerva  takes  her  place  on  her  citadel.  Brothers 
IN  Uniiy. 

Hinc  tabor  et  virtus.     Hence  labor  and  virtue.     Allison. 

Hoc  age.     Do  this.     Izard. 

Honestum  practulit  utili.     He  has   preferred  honor  to  profit. 

KiSSAM. 

Honor  virtutis  praemium.     Honor  the  reward  of  virtue.     Bre- 

ARLY.     Proctor. 
Honore  et  a^nore.     With  honor  and  love.     Hamersley. 
Ho7iore  et  fide.     With  honor  and  trust.     Sears. 
Hora  e  sempre.     Now  and  always.     Jarvis. 

I pensieri  streiti  ed  it  viso  sciolto.     The  thoughts  secret  and  the 

face  open.     Ludwell. 
Ignotis  errare  locis  ignota  videre, 
Flumina  gaudcbat :  studio  minucnte  laborem. 
He  loved  to  wander  in  unknown  places,  to  see  unknown  rivers  : 

pleasure  making  the  labor  light.     Eustace. 


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Ilk  ego  qui  ad  satia?idos  vivos  seco  mortuos.     I  am  he  who  cuts 

up  the  dead  to  heal  the  hving.     Malviaxs. 
Inimortalitas.     Immortahty.     Linonian  Society  Libr.\ry. 
Impavide.     Fearlessly.     Power, 

Improve  your  hours  for  they  never  return.     Guilford  Library, 
In  cruce  saliis.     In  the  cross  is  salvation,     Lawrence. 
In  Deo  fides.     My  trust  is  in  God.     Gray. 
In  Domino  confido.     I  trust  in  the  Lord.     Assheton. 
In  fide  et  in  bcllo  fortis.     Strong  in  faith  and  war.    Carroll, 
In  futura  spector.     I  regard  the  future.     Pierce. 
In  God  we  hope.     Whitridge, 
In  God  we  trust.     Scott. 
/«  hoc  signo  vinces.      Under   this   sign   thou  shalt   conquer. 

Eustace. 
In  lumine  tuo  videhimus  lumen.      In  thy  light  shall  we  see 

light,     CoLUiMBL\  College  Library. 
In  medio  tutissimus  ibis.     Thou  wilt  go  safest  in  the  middle. 

Cary.     Sumner. 
In  prudentia     et    simplicitate.       With    caution   and   candor. 

Vaughan. 
In  silentio  et  spe.     In  silence  and  hope.     Van  Berkel. 
In  tenebris  lucidior.     The  brighter  in  darkness.     Inglis. 
In  reference  to  the  a-est,  —  A  star  surrounded  by  clouds. 

Incorrupta  fides  nudaque  Veritas.  Uncorrupted  foith  and 
naked  truth.     Stephens. 

Indefessus  vigihxndo.     I  will  watch  unweariedly.     Read. 

Independence.     Jackson. 

Indure  but  hope.     Barrell. 

Initium  sapientiae  est  timor  Domini.  (Prov.  i,  7.  Ps.  cxi.  10.) 
The  fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  beginning  of  wisdom.     Martin. 

Imiocetiter,  patienter,  constanter.  Blamelessly,  patiently,  con- 
stantly.    Stille. 

Integra  mens  augustissima  possessio.  An  honest  mind  is  the 
most  glorious  possession.     Meredith. 

Inter  fieros  per  crucem  ad  coronam.  Among  wild  beasts  by 
the  cross  to  the  crown.     Stowe. 

Inter  fiolia  fructus.     Among  the  flowers  the  fruit.     Humphrey. 

J^avance.     I  advance.     Bartram. 

J'espere  en  Dieu.     I  hope  in  God.     Ray. 

Je  me  fie  en  Dieu.     I  trust  in  God.     De  Blois. 


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Je  recois  pour  donner.     I  receive  to  distribute.     Innes. 
Jovae  praesiat  fidere  qtiam  hominc.     It  is  better  to  trust  in 

God  than  man.     Stuyvesant. 
Judicemur  agendo.     Let  us  be  judged  by  our  deeds.    Hicks. 
Juucta  virtute  fides.     Fidelity  joined  to  bravery.     Murray. 
Jura   sunt  mea :    vindicabo.      These   are   my   rights :    I  will 

defend  them.     Taylor. 
Juste  rem  para.     Prepare  the  thing  justly.     Apthorp. 
Justice,  Truth.     Stone. 

Labor  omnia  vincit.     Labor  conquers  all  things.     Longbottom. 

Labor  to  rest.     Kempe. 

Labore.     By  labor.     Young. 

L amour  et  Famitie.     Love  and  friendship.     Oliver. 

Laiv  and  Right.     Allen. 

Lectorejn  delectando  partique  7nonendo.  To  please  the  reader 
and  partly  to  admonish.     Cox. 

Lege  et  intellige.     By  law  and  reason.     Simpson. 

Lege  et  ratione.     By  law  and  reason.     Crookshank. 

Legibus  vivo.     I  live  by  the  law.     Lisle. 

Lex  libertas  salusque  gentis.  Law,  liberty  and  the  safety  of  the 
race.     Georgetown  College. 

Libertas.     Liberty.     Pride. 

Libertas  et  natale  solum.  Liberty  and  my  native  soil.  Sit- 
greaves. 

Libertas  et patria  mea.  Liberty  and  my  country.  Giles.  Un- 
identified Plate. 

Libertatem,  amicitiam  retenebis  et  fidem.  You  will  keep  lib- 
erty, friendship  and  good  faith.     Adams. 

Literatura  mentcm  excandit.  Literature  brightens  the  mind. 
Welch. 

Live  to  truth.     Masterton. 

Loyal  au  mort.     Loyal  to  death.     Belcher.     King. 

Loyal Jusqu'a  la  Afort.     Loyal  even  unto  death.     Belcher. 

Loyez  ferme.     Be  steadfast.     Clarke. 

Luceo  non  tiro.     I  shine  but  do  not  burn.     McKenzie. 

Lucidior  in  tenebris.     The  brighter  in  darkness.     Inglis. 

L''un  pour  r autre.     For  each  other.     Samuels. 

Magnanimus  esto.     Be  great-souled.     Ingraham. 
Malo   mori  quam  foedari.     I  would  rather  die  than  be  dis- 
graced.   Betts.    Murray. 


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Manet  amiciiia  florebii  que  semper.  Friendship  endures  and 
is  in  perpetual  bloom.     Fr.\ncis.     Pierpont. 

Maximae  diviiiae  sunt  prae  doctrina  et  scientia  cojitemnendae  : 
sedz'iftus  omnibus  praestat.  The  greatest  riches  are  to  be 
despised  compared  with  learning  and  wisdom  :  but  virtue 
excels  all.     Vixton. 

Mav  concord  prevail  and  the  undertaking  prosper.  Albany 
Society  Libr.\ry. 

Mediocria  firma.     The  middle  course  is  safe.     Lardxer. 

Meliora  non  opto.     I  desire  no  better  things.     Jackson. 

Meliora  spero.     I  hope  for  better  things.     Panton. 

Mens  sibi  conscia  recti.  A  mind  conscious  of  its  rectitude. 
Murray. 

Mens  in  arduis  aequa.  A  mind  calm  in  the  midst  of  difficul- 
ties.    Abercrombie. 

Mille  nialis  salutis  habeo,  species  mille.  In  a  thousand  e\'ils  I 
have  a  thousand  chances  of  safety.     Foster. 

Miseris  succerrere  disco.  I  learn  to  succor  the  unfortunate. 
Livermore.     Rush. 

Modestia  victo?-ex.     Modesty  supreme.     Sullivan. 

Moveo  et  proficio.     I  advance  and  progress.     Knox. 

Multum  legendum.     Much  to  be  read.     White. 

Aly  hope  on  high.     Bedlow. 

My  ?night  makes  7-ight     Mackey. 

Natura  duces.     Nature  shall  lead.      Mass.  Medical  Society 

Library. 
Naturae  co7ivenienter  vivere.     To  live  conformably  to  Nature. 

Ludlow. 
Ne  cede  malis.     Yield  not  to  misfortune.     Chase. 
Ne  crede  colori.     Trust  not  to  color.     Smith. 
Ne  oublie.     Do  not  forget.     Gr,a.ham. 
Ne  parcas  nee  spernas.     Neither  spare  nor  scorn.     Yates. 
A^e  quid  nimis.     Not  too  much  of  anything.     Tazewell. 
Nee  aspera  terrent.     Difficulties  do  not  daunt.     Smith. 
Nee  degener.     I  do  not  degenerate.     Silvester. 
Nee  ehitus  nee  dcjectus.     Neither  overjoyed   nor  overworried. 

Thomas. 
Nee  gladio  nee  arcu.     Not  by  sword  or  bow.     Dudley. 
Nee  quaerere  honorem  nee  sperne.     Neither   to    seek  nor  to 

despise  honor.     Sargent. 


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Nee  sorte  nee  fato.     Neither  by  chance  nor  fate.     Rutherord. 

Nee  spe  7iee  metu.     Neither  by  hope  or  dread.     Read. 

Nee  te  qiiaesiveris  extra.     Seek  not  beyond  yourself.     Harison. 

Nee  timeo  nee  sperno.     I  neither  fear  nor  despise.     Greene. 

Nemo  nisi  Christus.      Nothing  unless  Christ.     Apthorp. 

Never  eheek.     Hawks. 

Never  despair.     Pintard. 

Nihil  me  tangere.    Nothing  smirches  me.     Stearns. 

Nil  cojiseire  siln.     To  have  a  conscience  free  from  guilt.     Pres- 

COTT, 

Nil  desperandiim.      Never   despair.     Shepheard.     Sheppard. 

Stewart. 
Nil  faei mils  non  sponte  Dei.     We  do  nothing  but  by  the  will 

of  God.     Atkinson. 
Nil  sine  Deo.     Nothing  without  God.     Waldo. 
Nil  sine  magno  vita  labore  dedit  mortalibus.     Life  gives  nothing 

to  mortals  without  great  labor.     Evarts. 
Nil  utile  quod  non  honestum.     Nothing  useful  that  is  not  honest. 

Smith. 
Nobilis  ira.     Noble  in  anger.     Stewart. 
Noeturna  versate  manu,  versa  te  diurna.  (Hor.)      Ponder  night 

and  day.     Robbins. 
Non  est  vivere  sed  valere  vita.     Not  living,  but  health,  is  life. 

Moore. 
Non  fleetere   a   vero.      Not   to   be    moved    from    the    truth. 

Livius. 
Non  ineautus  fufuri.     Not  heedless  of  the  future.     Lee. 
Non  nobis  solum.     Not  for  ourselves  alone.     Drayton.    Eliot. 
Non  oblitiis.     Not  forgotten.     McTavish. 
Non  7-everter  invitus.     Reluctantly  I  do  not  return.     Jenkins. 
Non  sibi  sed  aliis.     Not  for  himself,  but  for  others.     Olmsted. 
Noti  sibi  sed  patriae.     Not   for  himself,  but   for  his  country. 

Hill. 
Non  vi  sed  voliintate.     Not  by  force,  but  good  will.     Boucher. 
No  see  te  ipsum.    Know  thyself.    Edwards.    New  York  Society 

Library. 
Not  always  so.     Barrell. 

Nulla  pa'llesee re  culpa.     To  turn  pale  from  no  crime.     Byrd. 
Nulli praeda.     A  prey  to  no  one.     Deane. 
Nulliis  in  verba.  (Hor.  Ep.  Lib.  I.  i.  14.)     At  the  dictation  of 

no  man.     Maxey. 


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Nunc   mihi  7iunc  alii.      Now    for  myself,   now    for    another. 

WORMELEY. 

Nunqiiam  non  paratiis.     Never  unprepared.     Johnston. 

Occasionem  cognosc/^re.    To  perceive  the  opportunity.    Lowell. 
Omnes  fremant  licet  dicam  quod  sentio.      Though  all  rage,  I 

shall  say  what  I  think.     Smith. 
Omni fortiinae  paratns.     Ready  for  any  fortune.     Forbes. 
Omnia  Deo  pendent.     All  things  depend  on  God.     Stockton. 
Omnia  relinqidt  servare  rempiiblicam.     He  leaves  all  to  serve 

the  state.     Tueerville. 

Par  esperance  et  activite  nous  siir?nontons.     By  hope  and  work 

we  overcome.     Gorham. 
Par  pari.     Equal  to  my  equal.     Wall. 
Patior  ut potior.     I  endure  as  I  can.     Spotswood. 
Patria  cara  carior  libertas.     Dear  is  country,  dearer  is  liberty. 

Brown.     Clinton.     Marchant. 
Patria  Veritas  fides.     Country,  truth,  faith.     Everett. 
Pauper  non  in  spe.     Not  poor  in  hope.     Poor. 
Pax  et  avior.     Peace  and  love.     Backhouse. 
Pax  et  copia.     Peace  and  plenty.     Jones. 
Pax  hospitia  ruris.     Grateful  peace  of  the  country.     Jones. 
Pax  in  bello.     Peace  in  war.     Prioleau. 
Pax  quaeritur  bello.     Peace  is  secured  by  war.     Oliver. 
Pectore  puro.     With  a  pure  heart.     Royall. 
Pelle  timorem.     Drive  off  fear.     Whatley. 
Peperi.     I  have  brought  forth.     Pepperrell. 
Per  aspera  ad  astra.     Through  trials  to  glory.     Johnson. 
Per  varios  casus.     By  various  fortunes.     Mercer. 
Perge  coepisti.     Go  on  as  you  have  begun.     Ten  Broeck. 
Peril  ut  vivat.     He  dies  that  he  may  live.     Fenwick.  *  Magill. 
Persevere.     Gallatin. 
Pia  mente  studeatur.      Study  with  reverent   mind.     Phillips 

Academy. 
Piety  is  peace.     Hopkins. 
Post  tenebras  speramus  lumen  de  lumine.     y\fter  the  darkness 

we  hope  for  the  light  of  the  day.     Coffin. 
Postero  ne  credo.     Trust  not  the  future.     Cutting. 
Praestat  opes  sapientia.     Wisdom  excels  wealth.     Lh'ingston. 
Pro  aris  etfocis.    For  our  altars  and  our  firesides.    Bloomfield. 


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Pro  Deo  et  nobilissima  patria  Batavonini.  For  God  and  my 
most  noble  country,  Batavia.     Van  Ness. 

Pro  lege  et  rege.  For  the  law  and  the  king.  Child.  Hicks. 
Whitebread. 

Pro  libertate.     For  liberty.     Provoost. 

Pro  patria.     For  my  country.     Wallace. 

Pro  patria  mori.     For  country,  die.     Gardiner. 

Pro  patria  semper.     Always  for  my  country.     Fitzhugh. 

Pro  rege  et  patria.     For  the  king  and  fatherland.     Champion. 

Probitas  laudatur  et  laget.  Honesty  is  praised  and  is  left  to 
starve.     Antill. 

Probitate  et  industria.     By  honesty  and  industry.     Bridgen. 

Procurator  industria.     Industry  the  chief.     Fraunces. 

Progredi  non  regredi.     To  advance,  not  to  recede.  Rutledge. 

Propere  et  provide.     Quickly  and  carefully.     Robinson. 

Proprium  dec  us  et  petrum.      Powel. 

Prospicere  quam  iikisci.  Overlook  rather  than  avenge.  Main- 
gault. 

Providentia  suiiius.     We  are  providence.     Blatchford. 

Prudenter  et  simpliciter.     Discreetly  and  simply.     Vaughan. 

Pugna  pro  patria  libertas.  I  fight  for  the  liberty  of  my  coun- 
try.    Martin. 

Qui  conteutus  felix.     Happy  he  who  is  content.     Smith. 
Quiescit  in  perfecto.     He  rests  in  labor  completed.     Linonian 

Society  Library. 
Quo  cunque  ferar.   Whithersoever  I  may  be  carried.    St.  Clair. 
Quo  fata  vocant.    Where  the  fates  call.     Bay.    Erving.    Vose. 
Quo  vocat  virtus.     Where  virtue  calls.     Jauncey. 
Quod  fieri  non  vis  alteri  7ie  fueris.     Do  not  that  which  you 

would  not  wish  another  to  do.     Cock. 

Recte  et  suaviter.     Justly  and  mildly.     King. 

Recte  faciendo  securus.     Safe  in  acting  justly.     Inglis. 

Refero.     I  bring  back.     Wall. 

Respice  finum.     Regard  the  end.     McMurtrie. 

Reviresco.     I  become  young  again.     Maxwell. 

Robori  prudentia  praestat.     Discretion  is  more  than  strength. 

Young. 
Rosae  inter  spinas  nasciinter.     Roses  are  found  among   the 

thorns.     Thorndike. 


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Sacra  qiiercus.     Holy  oak.     Holyoke. 

Saepe  pro   rege,  semper  pro  republica.      Often    for    the    king, 

always  for  the  commonwealth.     Vassall. 
Sans  changer.     Without  changing.     Musgrave. 
Sans  Dieuje  ne puis.    ^Vithout  God  I  cannot  do  it.    Skipwith. 
Sapienter  si  sincere.     Wisely  if  sincerely.     Davidson. 
Secimdis  diibiisque   rectus.     Upright   both  in   prosperity   and 

perils.     W\THE. 
Seges  votis  respondet.    The  crop  responds  to  the  prayers.   Hasty 

Pudding  Club  Libr.4ry. 
Semper  caveto.     Be  always  on  guard.     Ball. 
Semper  fide  lis.     Always  faithful.     Schuyler. 
Semper  idem.     Always  the  same.     Clark. 
Semper  paratus.     Always   prepared.      Dunning.     Everdell. 

McCouN.     Hopkinson. 
Serva  jiigum.     Keep  the  yoke.     Hay. 
Simp/ins  sicut  cohimbae.     More  harmless  than  a  dove.     The 

Bishop  of  Jamaica. 
Sine  Deo  careo.     Without  God  I  want.     Cary. 
Sine  virtute  vani  sunt  honores.     Without   virtue,  honors   are 

vain.     Bozman. 
Sol  sapicntiae  nunquam   occidet.     The  sun  of  wisdom  never 

shall  set.     Socl^l  Friends'  Library. 
Sola  bona  quae  honesta.     Those  things  only  are  good  which 

are  honest.     Hunter. 
Sola  salus  servire  Deo.     The  only  safe  course  is  to  serve  God, 

Burke.    Jarvis.     Morong. 
Soli  Deo  gloria  et  honor.     Glory  and  honor  be  to  God  alone. 

Boudinot. 
Solus  minus  solus.     Alone  yet  not  alone.     Muhlenberg. 
Sperne  successus  alit.    Success  nourishes,  but  to  scorn.    Gurney. 
Spero  meliora.     1  hope  for  better  things.     Livingston.     Lud- 
low.    Panton. 
Spes  mea  in  Deo.     My  trust  is  in  God.     Cabell. 
Spes  meliora.     The  hope  of  better  things.     Panton. 
Spes  vincit  terrorem.     Hope  conquers  all  fears.     Winthrop. 
Stand  sure.     Grant. 
Strive  for  glory.     Vavasour  . 
Study  to  knoiv  thyself.     Greene. 
Stuitum  estinforo  sigtare.     It  is  foolish  to  shoot  arrows  in  the 

forum.     Unidentified  Plate. 


A  List  of  Mottoes.  337 

Siiblimiora  petamiis.     Let  us  seek  loftier  things.     Bancker. 
Sublimis  per  ardua  ten  do.     To  the  heights  through  hardships 

I  tend.     Chauncey. 
Sursiiin  corda.     Hearts  upward.     Bancroft. 
Sustinere.     Bear.     Brooks. 

Take  fast  hold  of  instruction  ;  let  her  not  go,  for  she  is  thy  life. 

(Prov.  iv.  13.)  Philadelphia  Apprentices'  Libr.\ry, 
Tandem  viticitur.  At  length  he  is  conquered.  Morris. 
Tantes  da  dir.     Rutgers. 

Tentafida  via  est.     The  way  must  be  tried.     Wetmore. 
Terra  ant  niari.     By  land  or  sea.     Parke. 
The  North  against  the  World.     Edwards. 
This  I'll  defend.       McFarlan. 
Toujours  le  mane.     Always  the  same.     Giles. 
Toujours  fidcle.     Always  faithful.     Horry. 
Toujours  prest.     x^lways  ready.     Carimichael. 
Tout  en  bonne  heure.     All  in  good  time.     Hicks. 
To  Virtue  6~'  Science  attend, 
And  Truth  (S^  Justice  defend.     Newberry. 
Transiens  adjuvanos.     Crossing  the  sea  to  help.     Society  for 

Propagating  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts. 
Trust  in  God.    Jones. 
Try.     Brazer. 
Tutus  sifortis.     Safe  if  brave.     Smith. 

Ubi  libertas  ibi  patria.     Where  liberty  prevails  there  is   my 

country.     Dinwiddie.     Weiberg. 
Ubi plura  nitent paucis  non  offendar  maculis.     Where  the  most 

is  bright,  let  me  not  be  offended  by  a  few  spots.     Walker. 
Ubi  plura  offendar  maculis  nitent  non  ego  paucis.     Where  the 

most  is  bright,  I  shall  not  be  offended  by  a  few  spots. 

Danforth. 
Uti  loy,  un  roy,  un  foy.    One  law,  one  king,  one  faith.  Herbert. 
Ut  aquila  versus  coeliim.    Like  the  eagle,  to  heaven.     Bowdoin. 
Ut  quiescas  labora.     Labor  that  you  may  rest.     Gallaudet. 
Utere  mundo.     Use  the  world.     Blackley. 
Utraque  unum.     With  either  one.     Georgetown  College. 

Vera  pro  gratis.     True  rather  than  pleasing.     Webster. 
Veritas.     Truth.     Harvard  College  Library. 


338  Americaji  Book-plates. 

Veritas  viticit  omnia.    Truth  conquers  all  things.    Waterhouse. 

Verite  sans  peiir.     Truth  without  fear.     Petigru. 

Verum  atqiie  decens.     The  truth  and  rectitude.     Weld. 

Verum  dicet.     He  speaks  the  truth.     Stanford. 

Verus  in  actioiie  consistit.     Truth  consists  in  action.     Craven. 

Vestigia  nulla  ret>'orsuni.  (Hor.  JEp.  i.  i.  73.)  No  steps  back- 
ward.    Kip. 

Vestra  cura  alitur.  Nourished  by  our  care.  Socla.l  Law 
Library. 

Vi  et  virtute.     By  strength  and  courage.     Spaight. 

Via  ad  cordem.     The  way  to  the  heart.     Wisner. 

Victoria  ant  mors.     Victory  or  death.     Kip. 

Videte  et  cavete  ab  avaritia.     Recognize  and  beware  of  avarice. 

POWNALL. 

Vigila.     Watch.     Anderson. 

Vigilemus  ut  vigilantis.    Let  us  watch  as  those  who  are  vigilant. 

U.  S.  Na\^\ 
Viftcit  amor  patriae.     The  love  of  country  surpasses  all  things. 

Pennington. 
"  Vincet  amor  patriae  laudumque  immensa  cupido."  —  Virg.  JEn.  vi.  823. 

Vincit  omnia  Veritas.     Truth  conquers  all  things.     Hvslop. 
Vincit  Veritas.     Truth  conquers.     Chambers. 
Virescit  vulnere  virtus.     Her  virtue  flourishes  by  her  wound. 
Burnet. 
This  is  also  the  motto  of  the  family  of  Galloway,  whose -crest  is  a 
pelican  in  her  piety. 

Virtue,  Liberty,  aiid  Independence.  Pennsylvania  Historical 
Society. 

Virtus  basis  vitae.     Virtue  is  the  foundation  of  life.     Bull. 

Virtus  durissima  terit.  Virtue  bears  the  greatest  hardships. 
McLean. 

Virtus  est  natale  meum.     Virtue  is  my  birthright.     Tillotson. 

Virtus  est  vera  vetustas.  Virtue  is  true  old  age.  Van  Rens- 
selaer. 

Virtus  et  scientia  ad  utilitatem  dirigunt.  Virtue  and  knowledge 
direct  to  usefulness.     Mor.\l  Libr.\ry. 

Virtus  interrita  pergit.     Virtue  fearlessly  advances.     Moore. 

Virtus,  libertas  et  patria.  Virtue,  liberty,  and  country.  Wet- 
more. 

Virtus  sibi  munus.     Virtue  its  own  reward.     Van  Cortlandt. 

Virtus  sola  fiobilitate.     Virtue  by  nobility  only.     Mayo. 


A  List  of  Mottoes.  339 

Virtu te  et  fide.     By  valor  and  faith.     Roome. 

Virtute  fideque.     By  valor  and  faith.     Murray. 

Virtiite  invidiam  vincas.     Conquer  envy  by  virtue.     Cleborne. 

Viriiite  patria  tucmini.     By  virtue  you   guard  your  country. 

Pepperell. 
Virfiitem  hilaritate  colere.     Cultivate  virtue  by  mirth.      Wyn- 

KOOP. 

Virfutis  gloria  jnerces.  Glory  is  the  reward  of  valor.  Robert- 
son. 

Vitanda  est  improba  Siren  defidia.  The  impious  Siren,  faith- 
lessness, must  be  shunned.     Walker. 

Vive  ut  vivas.     Live  that  you  may  live.     Aeercrombie. 

Waste  not  a  mo?tient.     Wethersfield  Library, 
What  is,  is  best.     Laurens. 

Wisely  for  pleasure  and  for  profit  read:  thus  hold  high  con- 
verse with  the  mighty  dead.     VVoodbridge. 

Y  cadam  ae  cypwyn.     The  mighty  and  cunning.     Williams. 

Zvt  l>estindisr.     Be  constant.     Dyckman. 


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A    FEW    RECENT   EXAMPLES. 


LL  book-plates  which  do  not 
have  the  flavor  of  age  about 
them,  and  which  were  made 
quite  within  the  memory  of 
the  collector,  are  classed  as 
recent  plates.  This  is  a  teiTn 
of  doubtful  application ;  but 
in  a  general  way  it  has  come 
to  mean  all  plates  made  since 
about  1830.  Their  number  is  legion,  of  course, 
and  no  attempt  is  here  made  to  enumerate  them, 
or  even  a  small  part  of  them,  but  only  to  note 
briefly  those  of  the  more  recent  additions  which 
are  especially  noteworthy.  And  now  we  part 
with  the  old  styles  of  plates.  The  early  armorial, 
with  the  profuse  denticulated  mantling,  is  never 
used,  the  pure  Jacobean  is  not  seen,  the  graceful 
Chippendale  has  been  discarded,  and  the  Ribbon 
and  Wreath,  with  its  fanciful  festoons  and  gar- 
lands of  roses,  is  also  a  thing  of  the  past. 

This  is  of  course  natural,  as  the  armorial 
plates,  which  are  the  only  ones  demanding  any 
of  these  styles  of  decoration,  are  very  little  used 
now.  But  we  have  still  the  Library  Interior, 
the  Literary,  the  Pictorial,  and  the  Allegorical ; 
but  these  have  changed  their  appearance  so  much 

340 


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A  Few  Recent  Examples.        341 

as  to  be  hardly  recognizable  as  the  lineal  de- 
scendants of  those  of  the  same  type  which  went 
before.  Indeed,  the  recent  plates  have  little  in 
common  with  the  old,  —  new  motives,  new  de- 
signs, new  methods,  and  new  conceptions  of  what 
a  book-plate  can  be  have  come  in,  and  the  change 
produced  is  very  marked. 

Heraldic  plates  are  still  in  use,  and  still  being 
made,  but  the  number  of  plain  armorials  is  quite 
small.  Usually,  now,  those  who  wish  to  show 
the  family  arms  on  the  book-plate  do  not  display 
it  all  by  itself,  but  accompanied  by  literary 
accessories,  or  pictorial,  or  with  decorative  fea- 
tures to  relieve  what  would  to-day  appear  a  bare 
and  unfinished  plate,  but  which  in  the  older  days 
would  have  been  the  pink  of  perfection. 

Among  the  plain  armorial  plates  of  recent 
days  may  be  mentioned  that  of  Henry  B.  An- 
thouv,  the  late  senator  from  Rhode  Island,  which, 
without  even  a  motto,  presents  the  arms  of  the 
family,  with  the  crest,  and  the  name.  Another 
plain  armorial  plate  is  that  of  yoJni  H.  Buck,  of 
the  Gorham  Manufacturing  Company,  and  the 
author  of  "  Old  Plate."  This,  too,  is  perfectly 
plain,  with  no  motto.  Frank  House  Baer  and 
Charles  VV.  Bnrrows,  of  Cleveland,  both  use  the 
plain  armorial  style,  relieved  by  slight  mantling 
or  scroll  work,  and  with  the  mottoes  on  ribbons 
beneath  the  shield.  Mr.  Appleton  Morgan  has 
a  plain  armorial  plate,  quartering  the  Morgan 
and  Appleton  arms.  Mr.  Daniel  Ravenel,  of 
Charleston,  also  uses  a  plain  armorial  shield, 
relieved  with  sprays  of  marigold  (the  Huguenot 


342  American  Book-plates. 

emblem)  and  of  wall-flower  (the  French  name  for 
which  is  Ravciiclle).  A  plain  armorial  plate,  in 
colors,  is  used  by  the  compiler  of  "  America 
Heraldica."  An  imposing  helmet  with  blue 
mantling  surmounts  the  shield,  and  the  motto, 
Moins  faire  mieux  faire,  is  given  on  a  ribbon 
which  encloses  the  whole  design.  Harry  Allen 
Castle,  of  Hartford,  uses  a  design  borrowed  from 
the  plate  of  Mr.  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich.  The 
castle  on  its  wreath  is  enclosed  by  a  square 
frame  in  which  the  name  appears,  with  the  words 
His  Mark.  In  the  corners  of  this  frame  are  the 
letters  I.H.S.  V.,  standing  for  the  motto,  ///  /ioc 
signo  vinces.  A  punning  friend,  upon  seeing 
this  plate,  remarked  to  Mr.  Castle,  that  the  letters 
would  seem  to  mean,  "  I  have  some  volumes." 
Dr.  J.  S.  H.  Fogg,  the  late  well-known  collector 
of,  and  authority  on,  autographs,  used  a  plain 
armorial  plate,  with  the  motto.  Ant  pax  atd 
belliim.  Prof.  J.  Max  Hark,  of  the  Moravian 
Seminary  at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  has  a  plain  heraldic 
plate,  with  thin  mantling  about  the  shield.  The 
motto  occupies  two  lines  above  and  below  the 
shield,  and  is  in  imitation  of  the  ancient  manner. 
What  man  a''  Honeff  Name"  doth  oiu'n,  To" 
hy"  rfht  gla'd^''  my"  Bo'k"  i  lo^'n.  But  fo  to' 
long'"  y'  Bo"h"  be  kepH,  He  fhal  forfoHh  he  a 
Knav'  yclep't.  This  is  printed  with  red  capi- 
tals, on  very  fine  parchment  paper  with  rough 
edges,  and  is  a  very  pretty  plate.  Dr.  Joseph 
Henry  Dubbs,  professor  in  Franklin  and  Marshall 
College,  uses  a  plate  which  exhibits  the  arms  on 
a  shield   which   is  fastened  to  a  spreading  oak- 


343 


344 


American  Book-plates. 


tree.  At  either  side,  scrolls  are  drawn,  which 
bear  the  motto,  Ex  recto  dectis,  and  the  following 
dates,  which  refer  to  the  migrations  of  the  doctor's 
ancestors:  Sty  via,  1446',  Helvetia,  1531;  A7}icr- 
ica,  IJ32.  A  plate  of  unique  history  is  that  of 
The  Razule  Lazu  Offices,  EstablisJied  A.D.  1783, 
Philadelphia.  Tliis  inscription  is  given  on  a 
circular  band  which  encloses  the  shield  of  arms, 
and  the  motto,  Morte,  Virtute.  Below  this,  the 
name  of  the  successive  proprietors  of  the  law- 
ofifices    are    given,   as    follows :    William   Razvle, 


lySj-iSjS,  William  Rawle,  1810-18^8,  William 
Heiijy  Razule,  1844-188^,  William  Brooke  Razule, 
186'/.  Melvin  H.  Hapgood,  of  Hartford,  uses  an 
oblong  plate,  which  exhibits  the  shield  of  arms 
at  the  left  of  the  name  space,  and  which  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  fine  running  vine  which  bears 
both  fruit  and  flowers,  and  among  the  twistings 
of  which  the  motto.  Inter  folia  fructiis,  is  woven. 
The  implements  of  the  architect,  and  the  sec- 
,ondary  motto,  Pcnna  ferro  potentior,  are  also 
cleverly  worked  into  the  decorative  frame.  Mon- 
signor  Scton,  D.D.,  of  Jersey  City  Heights,  uses  a 


345 


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346  American  Book-plates. 

small  heraldic  plate,  in  which  the  arms  are  given 
in  colors,  and  are  surmounted  by  the  clerical  hat 
and  tassels.  A  plain  armorial  plate  is  used  by 
John  F.  Winslow,  a  descendant  of  Governor 
Winslow,  and  one  to  whose  means  and  energy 
wc  owe  the  building  of  the  first  "  Monitor."  Prof. 
Charles  Eliot  Norton,  of  Harvard,  uses  an  heraldic 
plate,  in  which  the  crest  only  is  given.  Beneath 
this,  a  pile  of  books  is  covered  by  a  scroll,  which 
bears  upon  it  the  motto,  Amici  ct  aniicis.  The 
Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York 
City,  uses  an  heraldic  plate,  in  which  also  the 
crest  only  is  given.  This  is  surrounded  by  a 
circular  garter,  on  which  the  motto.  Quod  dixi 
factum  est,  is  printed.  This  ends  our  list  of 
plain  armorial  plates. 

Whatever  sarcasm  and  disgust  may  be  stirred 
up  by  the  assumption'  of  arms  by  persons  not 
entitled  to  them,  no  word  can  be  said  against  the 
display  of  authenticated  arms  upon  the  book- 
plate. Many  coats-of-arms  run  back  for  several 
centuries,  and  an  honored  ancestry  has  borne 
them.  A  rightful  pride  in  such  memorials  of 
past  family  history  induces  many  who  are  entitled 
to  them  to  use  their  arms  thus ;  and  while  the 
plain  armorial  plate  has  had  its  day,  and  has 
passed  the  stage  of  wide  popularity,  it  is  still  in 
use. 

Coming,  now,  to  the  Library  Interior  style  of 
book-plates,  we  mention  first  the  finest  example 
of  recent  work  in  this  style,  —  the  plate  q>{  Riehard 
C.  Liehtenstein,  of  Boston.  Mr.  Lichtenstein  is 
one  of  the  old  collectors  of  plates,  a  member  of 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        347 

the  Council  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society  of  London, 
and  a  recognized  authority  upon  American  plates. 
As  we  would  expect,  he  has  indicated  his  hobby 
in  all  details  of  his  design.  The  scene  is  laid  in 
the  corner  of  the  owner  s  den,  in  which  are  well- 
filled  shelves,  framed  prints,  photographs,  and 
the  usual  accessories.  In  the  immediate  fore- 
ground, a  Cupid  is  seated  at  a  desk,  and  in  his 
outstretched  hand  holds  a  plate  upon  the  globe 
which  stands  at  hand,  while  he  reads,  from  an 
open  book,  the  description,  presumably,  of  the 
treasure  lately  acquired.  Two  other  Cupids  are 
at  his  back :  one  bearing  the  Journal  of  the  Ex 
Libris  Society,  and  the  other  returning  from  a 
successful  quest  for  plates,  if  we  may  judge  by 
the  packet  under  his  arm.  The  presence  of  the 
globe  indicates  the  cosmopolitan  character  of 
the  collection  the -Cupids  are  examining  and  add- 
ing to.  A  finely  foliated  border  surrounds  the 
interior  picture ;  and  in  a  space  at  the  right  side 
is  a  package  of  mounted  plates ;  and  on  the  left, 
a  ticd-up  bunch  of  book-covers,  in  which  Mr. 
Lichtenstein  keeps  his  plates.  The  name  ap- 
pears in  white  letters  upon  a  black  scroll  at  the 
bottom,  and  behind  it  is  seen  a  castle  of  white 
stone,  —  a  play  on  the  name  of  the  owner.  The 
plate  is  dated  1S93,  and  is  signed  by  the  engraver, 
George  Moore,  and  the  designer,  L.  Y.  Van 
Tiffele. 

The  plate  of  James  Phiuney  Baxter  reveals  a 
most  pleasing  interior,  which  is  probably  from 
the  actual  room.  A  tall  clock  is  flanked  by  long 
rows  of  books,  a  table  and  easy-chair  are  in  the 


OF  THE     ■" 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        349 

foreground,  and  bric-a-brac  is  disposed  upon  con- 
venient shelving.  At  the  left  of  the  picture,  a 
portrait  of  the  owner  is  given,  with  a  fac-simile 
of  his  autograph.  The  following  motto,  W/io 
Icarus  and  learns  but  does  not  what  he  knoius,  Is 
one  who  plows  and  ploivs  bitt  never  sows,  is  also 
given  in  fac-simile  of  handwriting. 

The  plate  of  William  Vanamec  shows  what  is 
also  an  actual  interior,  probably.  The  stairs 
enter  the  room  at  the  left,  and  the  space  under 
them  is  occupied  by  books.  Pictures  adorn  the 
walls,  and  a  cosey  bench  before  the  shelves  invites 
the  visitor  to  recline  and  read.  The  motto,  Carpe 
diem,  is  given  above  the  picture,  and  the  name 
below,  both  in  fac-simile  of  handwriting. 

Actual  comfort  and  enjoyment  are  expressed  in 
the  plate  of  Lonis  J.  Haber,  of  New  York  City. 
In  this  interior,  a  fire  is  blazing  on  the  andirons ; 
the  drowsy  dog  lies  asleep  before  it ;  the  hanging 
lamp  sheds  a  brilliant  light  over  the  room,  and 
furnishes  the  means  of  reading  which  the  owner 
is  enjoying,  as  he  sits  in  an  easy  chair,  in  lounging- 
coat  and  slippers.  The  rows  of  books  at  the  far 
end  of  the  room  add  to  the  effect  of  comfort, 
and  the  motto  which  envelopes  the  whole  design 
—  My  silent  but  faithful  friends  are  they  — 
discloses  the  attitude  of  the  owner  towards  his 
volumes. 

The  plate  of  Albert  C.  Bates,  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Historical  Society,  at  Hartford,  is  a  reproduc- 
tion of  an  early  woodcut  which  represents  the 
interior  of  an  old  library  (University  of  Leyden, 
16 14),  with  long  rows  of  books  chained  to  their 


350  Amencan  Book-plates, 

desks.  Globes  are  protected  by  brass  covers,  the 
patrons  salute  each  other  in  apparent  silence,  and 
over  all  there  is  an  air  of  repression  and  elevated 
learning.  No  seats  are  provided,  and  light  is 
admitted  through  long  windows  filled  with  small 
lozenge-shaped  panes  of  glass. 


The  beautiful  colored  plate  of  Gerald  E.  Hart, 
of  Montreal,  represents  the  interior  of  a  cell  in 
some  mediceval  monastery ;  for  the  tonsured  monk 
is  sitting  upon  his  stone  bench,  illuminating  a 
laro^e  volume.  The  Gothic  window  admits  lioht 
through  its  highly  colored  design,  and  rows  of 
vellum  lie  beside  the  desk  of  the  old  monk. 

The  plate  of  W.  E.  Baillic,  of  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  represents  a  corner  of  a  modern  library, 
furnished  in  the  Louis  XV.  style,  having  some 
half-dozen  frolicsome  Cupids,  rolling  on  the  rugs, 
peeking  out  of  the  window,  reading  in  arm-chairs, 
or  discussing  the  volumes  taken  from  the  elabo- 
rately carved  case.     This  plate  is  the  second  one 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        351 

to  make  use  of  the  half-tone  process  direct  from 
the  pencil  sketch. 

Continuing  with  the  plates  which  come  properly 
under  the  classification  "  Literary,"  we  find  them 
to  be  very  numerous,  very  various  in  design,  and 
very  unlike  in  shape  and  treatment.  A  plate 
which  represents  the  past  is  used  by  Henry  M. 
Brooks,  of  Salem,  Mass.     In  this  the  old  ink-pot 


and  quill,  the  box  of  wafers,  the  wax  and  seal,  and 
the  sand  for  blotting  are  disposed  about  the  letter, 
which,  being  used  before  the  days  of  postage 
stamps  and  envelopes,  bears  the  amount  due  and 
the  address  upon  the  back  of  the  sheet.  The 
address  seen  is  that  of  the  owner. 

Going  still  further  back  in  history  E.  Ire^icpus 
Stevenson  has   brought   the   very  serpent   of  the 


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Garden  of  Eden,  with  the  fatal  apple  of  Knowl- 
edge in  his  fangs,  into  his  book-plate.  Slipping 
down  between  the  open  pages  of  a  large  book, 
we  see  this  form  of  his  Satanic  Majesty,  and  read 
upon  the  apple  which  he  offers  Eritis  sicut  Deus, 
Ye  shall  be  as  gods.  This,  from  the  Vulgate,  is 
in  Latin.  Upon  the  open  page  we  read  in  Greek, 
Be  ye  zvise  as  serpents.  The  Shekinah  blazes  out 
all  about  the  book.  A  very  interesting  and 
striking  plate. 

A  very  simple  but  effective  reminder  of  the  ap- 
proach of  old  age  is  found  in  the  plate  of  George 
Alexander  Macbeth,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  In  this, 
an  open  book  of  coarse  print  lies  upon  the  table, 
accompanied  by  a  large  pair  of  spectacles.  The 
motto  appears  in  the  upper  left  corner,  —  Give  me 
your  favor :  my  dull  brain  zvas  wj'oiight  with 
things  forgotten. 

Very  many  plates  have  a  shelf  of  books,  or  a 
pile  of  them,  accompanied  with  a  favorite  quota- 
tion, a  bust  of  some  author,  the  arms  of  the 
owner,  or  possibly  his  portrait.  In  the  plate  of 
Cliff 07^d  Jnliiis  King,  we  see  the  row  of  books, 
the  smoke  from  the  waning  cigar,  as  it  rises  across 
the  open  pages  of  a  book,  and  the  bust  of  Thack- 
eray, while  the  motto,  A  jollie  goode  booke,  whereon 
to  looke,  is  better  to  me  than  golde,  is  suggestive 
of  long  evenings  by  the  fireside,  with  choice  edi- 
tions to  read  and  fondle. 

The  shelf  of  books  in  the  plate  of  Nathaniel 
Paine,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  enclosed  within  a 
frame  which  has  suggestions  of  the  heraldic 
shield.     Behind  it  the  palm  branches  are  placed, 


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and  the  motto  is  below,  on  a  ribbon, — Ducc  uatura 
scqiior.     The  crest  is  found  in  its  place  above. 

"  Wrenwood "  is  the  name  of  the  home  of 
George  E.  Leightou,  if  we  may  judge  by  the  name 
which  appears  on  the  top  of  the  shield,  which 
rests  against  his  books  just  inside  the  library 
window.  The  window  is  open,  flowers  peek 
around  the  mullions,  and  a  wren  has  hopped  upon 
the  sill  to  examine  the  surroundings  which  have 
borrowed  his  name  for  their  own. 

A  pile  of  three  books,  labelled  Baeon,  Lamb, 
and  ''Punch,'''  is  shown  in  the  plate  of  David 
Micrray.  The  legend,  Some  books  are  to  be  tasted, 
some  to  be  szvaltowed,  and  some  to  be  chcived  and 
digested,  is  given  on  the  back  of  the  books. 
Above  the  volumes,  the  scales  carrying  the  heavy 
pen  on  one  side,  and  the  lighter  sword  on  the 
other,  is  surmounted  by  a  liberty-cap,  behind 
which,  in  a  blaze  of  glory,  appears  the  motto. 
The  pen  mightier  than  the  sword. 

In  the  plate  of  George  Imbrie  Sill,  three  shelves 
of  books  are  enclosed  within  a  frame  of  scrolls 
which  bear  the  name.  A  shield  is  placed  across 
one  end  of  the  case,  with  the  arms  and  crest 
upon  it. 

Now  we  come  to  a  plate  which  takes  us  below 
the  surface.  A  wondrous  mermaid,  at  the  very 
depths,  flanked  by  huge  dolphins,  is  receiving  a 
perfect  shower  of  books,  which  come  tumbling 
down  through  the  water.  This  is  the  plate  of 
H.  W.  Bryant,  of  Portland,  Me. 

Marshall  C.  Lefferts,  of  New  York  City,  uses 
small  leather  labels  on  which  an  open  book  bear- 


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ing  his  monogram  is  stamped  in  gold.  Different 
colors  of  leather  are  provided  for  different  vol- 
umes. This  is  the  only  instance  of  the  use  of 
leather  for  a  book-plate  in  this  country,  if  I 
mistake  not:  a  very  handsome  material,  too,  for 
the  purpose,  and  meriting  wider  use. 


In  the  plate  of  John  Herbert  Corning,  of  W^ash- 
ington,  Atlas,  with  strained  muscles,  supports  the 
world  of  letters.  Litterae  is  inscribed  upon  the 
immense  globe  which  rests  upon  his  shoulders. 

Two  children  of  the  forest,  a  boy  and  a  girl, 
with   flowing  hair  and   meagre    garments,   come 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        355 

towards  us  in  the  plate  of  A.  L.  Hollingsiuorth, 
of  Boston,  bearing  between  them  a  panel  on 
which  is  carved  the  motto  Uii  ban  livre  est  iin 
don  ami.  The  dense  forest  is  close  behind  them, 
and  were  it  not  for  the  reader,  one  feels  as  if  no 
person  would   pass   their  way  to  see  their  lofty 


sentiment.  So  thick,  indeed,  is  the  tangle  of 
brush,  that  the  loss  of  their  clothes  must  be  laid 
to  their  passage  through  it. 

In  the  plate  of  Dr.  George  L.  P arm e lee,  of 
Hartford,  a  herald  in  court  costume  is  proclaim- 
ing, through  his  long  trumpet,  the  loss  of  a  book. 
The  banner  hanging  from  the  horn  shows  the 
words  he  uses  :   Verloren  !    Verloj^en  J  ein  Buck. 


356  American  Book-plates. 

We  are  again  taken  far  down  below  the  waves, 
in  the  plate  of  IVilliain  Ashmead  Coiirtcuay,  of 
Charleston,  S.C.  Down  indeed,  to  the  very  bot- 
tom of  the  ocean,  where  the  weeds  grow,  and  the 
dolphin  feeds.  Above,  the  waves  are  rolling, 
and  a  far  stretch  of  water  is  seen.  The  view  is 
enclosed  within  a  square  frame  which  bears  the 
name. 

The  Rev.  Win.  R.  Hiintiuo-ton,  rector  of  Grace 
Church,  New  York  City,  uses  a  design  which  is 
adapted  from  a  frontispiece  by  Walter  Crane  for 
the  "  Fairy  Tales "  of  the  Brothers  Grimm,  and 
which  represents  a  youth,  with  long  curls  fall- 
ing from  under  his  cap,  opening  the  door  of  a 
house,  with  a  huge  key.  Upon  the  roof,  two 
cupids,  in  imminent  danger  of  sliding  off,  are 
making  music  with  lyre  and  voice.  A  few  stars 
shine  against  the  night,  and  the  light  of  the  moon 
falls  across  the  face  of  the  structure,  revealing 
the  huge  orange-trees  in  fruit,  which  flank  the 
doorway.  The  motto,  In  veritate  victoria,  is 
carved  upon  the  steps,  and  the  name  Hunting- 
ton is  given  at  the  very  top  of  the  design. 

Other  plates  whose  principal  features  are 
"  bookish  "  are  those  of  Henry  A.  Aloj'gan,  which 
has  simply  a  large  book,  open,  with  blank  leaves : 
on  one  is  inscribed  The  page  in  zuaiting;  of 
Edward  Denhani,  which  has  an  owl  perched 
upon  an  open  volume,  upon  whose  pages  are  the 
following  names,  Bedc,  Camden,  Bradford,  Chau- 
cer, Shakspere,  Sandys,  with  the  torch  of  knowl- 
edge and  the  wreath  of  victory  behind  it:  the 
wreath  is  tied  with  a  ribbon  which  bears  the  motto 


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A  Few  Recent  Examples.        357 

—  Nulla  dies  sine  linea :  of  Charles  F.  Jilson, 
Chicago,  on  whose  plate  simply  a  closed  book  is 
seen,  with  a  palette  resting  upon  it ;  the  brush 
and  the  drawing  tools  reveal  the  art  of  the  owner, 
while  the  half-covered  lyre  upon  the  book-cover 
may  be  an  indication  of  his  hobby;  —  of  Alfred 
Trumble,  of  New  York  City,  who  displays  a  table 
whereon  the  bust  of  Minerva,  the  student-lamp, 
the  scroll,  ink-stand  and  quill,  and  the  books 
jostle  each  other  in  delightful  literary  confusion ; 

—  of  the  Hon.  John  E.  Russell,  of  Boston,  who 
shows  the  owl  of  Minerva  seated  upon  the  books 
of  the  scholar :  the  globe,  materials  for  writing, 
and  the  lamp  of  knowledge  are  disposed  about,  and 
the  whole  is  encircled  by  an  oval  wreath  of  holly. 

The  plate  of  Thomas  J.  McRec,  of  New  York 
City,  represents  a  volume  of  Shakespeare's  Works, 
open  to  the  title-page,  which  is  occupied  princi- 
pally by  a  portrait  of  the  famous  author  play- 
wright. The  arms  and  name  appear  upon  the 
fly-leaf  of  the  book,  other  books  are  at  hand,  and 
the  following  lines  are  given  at  the  foot :  — 

Tu  viihi  curranim  irqiiies,  tu  node  rel  atra 
Lumen,  et  in  solis  tu  mild  tiirba  locis. 

The  plate  of  Paul  Lenipcidy,  of  Cleveland,  de- 
signed by  Garrett,  shows  the  open  book,  with  the 
serpent  circled  about  it.  The  stars  shine  beyond, 
and  the  design  is  enclosed  within  a  rectangular 
border  of  holly  leaves. 

Another  class  of  plates  which  claim  attention 
to-day  is  that  which  is  representative  of  either 
the   hobby  or  the  vocation   of  the  owner.     For 


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special  collections,  for  certain  kinds  of  books, 
plates  are  designed  which  express  the  particular 
line  of  reading,  or  of  collecting,  which  they  are 
to  ornament.  This  style  of  plate  is  coming  more 
and  more  into  use,  and  earnest  pleas  have  been 
put  forth  for  its  wide  adoption ;  notably,  one  by 
Henri  Pene  Dtc  Bois,  in  the  "  Book  Lovers'  Al- 
manac," for  1894.  In  his  worthy  article  on  the 
"  Art  of  the  Book-plate,"  this  writer  argues  forci- 
bly for  the  expression  of  a  genuine  idea  in  the 
book-plate.  Not  mere  coats-of-arms,  crests,  pic- 
torial designs  or  devices  and  ornaments  which 
look  pretty,  seem  to  him  suitable  for  use  as  book- 
plates, but  an  emphatic  representation  of  an  idea, 
a  worthy  idea,  clad  in  suitable  form.  He  argues 
for  special  plates  for  special  collections,  for  a 
specific  plate  for  a  specific  line  of  books ;  not  an 
ornamental  label  simply,  to  be  placed  in  each 
book  in  one's  library,  but  a  different  plate,  with 
a  reason  for  its  existence,  in  each  different  de- 
partment. Very  few,  if  any,  in  this  country, 
carry  the  idea  so  far;  but  many  plates  are  now 
in  use  which  convey  at  once  an  idea  of  the  pur- 
suit of  the  owner,  whether  it  be  in  literature,  art, 
science,  or  professional  life.  The  plate  of  George 
Edward  Sears,  with  its  grinning  skull,  is  perhaps 
at  first  glance  unpleasant  in  its  effect,  but  when 
one  comes  to  unravel  the  plain  meaning  of  the 
symbolism,  the  shudder  dies  away,  and  we  are 
prepared  to  regard  the  plate  as  one  of  the  very 
highest  types,  and  most  successful  in  its  way. 
Mr.  Sears  has  gathered  a  large  collection  of  books 
relating  to  the  "  Dance  of  Death,"  and  findino"  in 


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360  American  Book-plates. 

a  1754  edition  of  Matthew  Merian's  work,  this 
plate  which  seemed  no  part  of  the  series  but  an 
impromptu  addition,  he  adopted  it  for  his  book- 
plate. Mr.  W.  J.  Linton  engraved  the  block, 
reducing  considerably  from  the  original.  This 
plate  is  used  only  in  the  books  relating  to  the 
topic  it  suggests.  In  this  plate  the  skull  is  placed 
upon  an  open  book,  between  a  lighted  candle  and 
a  few  flowers  in  a  vase.  A  wreath  encircles  the 
smooth  pate,  and  an  hour-glass  rests  upon  it,  with 
the  hovering  wings  of  Time,  and  the  scales,  just 
above.  The  lower  half  of  the  plate  has  a  very 
dark  background,  while  the  upper  is  filled  with 
light. 

Henry  Blackiuell,  of  New  York  City,  uses  a 
plate  in  his  collection  of  Welshiana  which  was 
designed  for  the  purpose.  In  this  plate  we  see 
the  sturdy  oak  raised  in  the  centre  of  the  scene. 
Upon  the  right  side,  the  bearded  Druid  is  lopping 
off  the  branches  of  the  mistletoe,  which  seem  to 
be  growing  with  the  oak.  Opposite  to  him,  the 
early  Briton  with  his  harp  makes  wild  music. 
A  circular  medallion  upon  the  tree  represents 
the  peak  of  Snowden,  the  highest  mountain  in 
Wales,  and  the  motto.  Cared  doeth  yr  encilion,  is 
given  upon  the  frame.  This  plate,  like  that  of 
Mr.  Sears,  was  suggested  by  an  illustration  in  an 
old  book.  A  second  plate  is  used  for  the  litera- 
ture upon  the  famous  voyage  of  Madoc  to  our 
shores  in  a.d.  i  170.  In  this  plate  we  see  the  old- 
fashioned,  high-sided  ship,  with  its  bellying  sails, 
plunging  through  the  rolling  waves,  as  it  passes 
out  to  sea  with  the  hardy  adventurer  and  his  crew. 


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As  examples  of  plates  representative  of  the 
hobby  of  their  owners,  we  have  the  following: 
Dean  Sage;  an  angling  plate,  very  simple  in 
design  and  very  fine  in  execution,  with  a  large 
trout,  and   the   rod  and  the  landing  net  crossed 

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behind  it :  an  enthusiastic  fisherman,  and  the 
author  of  a  sumptuous  volume  on  salmon-fishing 
in  some  of  the  Canadian  rivers,  Mr.  Sage  uses 
this  plate  only  in  the  books  of  his  library  which 
relate  to  the  gentle  pursuit  favored  of  Walton  ; 
—  Hoivland ;  An  angling  plate  of  very  hand- 
some design :  the  shield  of  arms    is    surrounded 


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with  the  implements  of  the  fisherman,  with  evi- 
dences of  his  success  and  with  the  weeds  which 
grow  by  the  water  side :  the  motto  Piscator-  non 
solum  piscator  floats  on  a  ribbon  above ;  — 
Lucius  Poole ;  the  masks  of  Comedy  and  of 
Tragedy  are  brought  together  in  this  plate,  as 
indicative  of  the  books  collected  by  Mr.  Poole ; 
—  ArtJiur  Robinson  Stone:  a  folio  volume  of 
music  is  open  to  the  Largo  of  the  second  part 
of  the  "  Messiah,"  by  Handel,  and  is  copied  from 
the  original  score  preserved  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum :  —  in  the  plate  of  Martin  Haydcn  two 
Cupids  bear  a  shield  on  which  the  name  is  given : 
each  little  Cupid  also  manages  to  hold  a  mask: 
the  motto,  Upiuard,  Omvard. 

Fred  C.  Schlaick :  in  this  we  see  the  upper- 
most part  of  a  column  and  its  Corinthian  capital. 
A  little  Cupid  flies  away  from  the  finished  piece 
of  work,  carrying  the  veil  which  had  concealed  it 
from  view.  This  design  hardly  needs  the  word 
Architect,  which  is  added  just  after  the  name,  to 
express  the  profession  of  the  owner. 

Edward  Stratton  Holloway :  in  this  design, 
the  owl  is  perched  upon  a  limb,  with  the  palette, 
brushes,  sketch-book,  and  pencils  of  the  illustrator 
within  his  clutch. 

A  most  happy  plate  is  that  of  Afr.  Richard  Hoe 
Lawrejice,  which  is  designed  for  use  only  in  the 
library  housed  at  his  country  seat,  "  Oscaleta 
Lodge,"  and  which  is  mainly  botanical.  In  this 
plate  the  partridge- vine,  Mitchella  repens,  is  shown 
in  its  proper  colors,  and  is  surrounded  by  a  double 
l^order  of  red  lines,  within  which  the  motto,  from 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        363 

Rabelais,  Fay  ce  que  votcldras,  is  given  in  yellow. 
The  plate  was  designed  by  Miss  Mary  S.  Law- 
rence. 

For  a  Philatelical  library,  the  plate  of  Mr.  John 
K.  Tiffany  is  exceedingly  appropriate,  the  design 
being  enlarged  from  the  old  and  rare  St.  Louis 
Postmaster's  stamp  of  1845.  The  book-plate  was 
cut  on  wood  by  the  same  man  who  designed  the 
original  stamp.  It  is  an  exact  fac-simile  of  the 
old  stamp,  giving  the  two  bears  holding  between 
them  the  circular  frame  which  encloses  the  arms. 

A  very  good  example  of  the  Allegorical  book- 
plate is  that  of  George  H.  Elkvangcr,  of  Rochester. 
This  is  designed  to  illustrate  the  LXX  sonnet  of 
the  Amoretti,  of  Spenser.  With  all  the  charming 
freshness  of  the  early  vernal  season  about  her,  we 
see  Spring,  in  graceful  drapery,  carrying  buds 
and  blossoms  in  her  hands,  and  crowned  with  a 
wreath  of  fiowers,  approaching  us.  The  garlands, 
the  numerous  birds,  the  new  leaves  upon  the 
trees,  and  the  sense  of  warmth  in  the  scene, 
clearly  depict  the  meaning  of  the  artist. 

Turning,  now,  to  the  pictorial  plates,  we  find 
their  number  rather  small.  Decorative  features, 
bits  of  landscape  and  of  interiors  are  found  in 
many  plates ;  but  these  little  ornamentations  do 
not  constitute  a  real  pictorial  plate.  One  of  the 
finest  examples  is  the  plate  of  E.  G.  Asay,  of 
Chicago.  In  this  we  find  ourselves  intruding 
upon  the  councils  of  the  Muses ;  for  we  see  Art 
seated  upon  a  throne,  with  the  palette  and  brushes 
idle  in  her  lap,  while  about  her,  in  graceful 
manner,  recline  History,  Music,  and  Literature. 


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The  lyre  of  Music  is  quiet,  as,  with  her  hand 
affectionately  placed  upon  the  shoulder  of  His- 
tory, she  listens  to  the  reading  of  the  just-inscribed 


record.  Art  likewise  gives  interested  attention  to 
the  recital ;  and  Literature,  with  her  book  closed, 
leans  upon  the  convenient  globe,  and  listens. 

Wholly  different  is  the  plate  of  Allen  Wallace. 
In  this,  one  of  the  Naiadee  reclines  upon  the  over- 


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turned  urn,  from  which  the  never-ceasing  flow  of 
water  falls  over  the  rock,  and  slips  away  in  a 
widening  stream.  With  one  hand  she  caresses 
the  limpid  flow,  as  it  emerges  from  the  urn.  At 
either  side,  below  her,  two  dolphins  discharge 
quantities  of  water  from  their  mouths  into  an 
immense  shell  which  receives  the  stream  from  the 
urn  as  well.  Tall  sheaves  of  wheat  rise  above 
them,  and  directly  behind  the  head  of  the  Naiad 
is  the  motto.  Nil  clarius  aqiiis. 

Mr.  H.  E.  Dcats,  of  Flemington,  N.J.,  has  a 
most  beautiful  specimen  of  steel  engraving  which 
he  uses  in  his  numismatic  library.  In  this,  we 
see  a  female  figure  clad  in  classic  costume,  with 
a  diadem  on  her  brow,  sitting  on  the  clouds,  and 
having  at  her  side  an  oval  shield,  on  which  a  very 
important  peacock  is  depicted  as  using  the  globe 
for  his  perch.  On  either  side,  cornucopice  of 
fruit  and  flowers  barely  hold  their  quantities  of 
produce.  The  motto,  histaiiratio  saeculi  fclicis, 
is  placed  upon  the  edge  of  the  shield. 

The  plate  of  Frances  Louise  and  Charles  Dexter 
Allen  represents  a  female  figure  in  classic  robes 
seated  upon  a  stone  bench  at  the  foot  of  tall 
trees.  It  is  twilight,  and  the  glint  of  the  weak- 
ening^  lio-ht  is  seen  through  the  leaves.  Books, 
manuscript,  and  scrolls  are  strewn  around  the 
solitary  figure.  The  motto,  Sapientiam  veram 
V  petimus,  is  carved  along  the  top  of  the  wall  be- 
hind. One  arm  of  the  figure  is  thrown  across 
the  top  of  an  open  book,  on  which  the  names  of 
the  owners  are  given.  This  plate  was  suppressed 
at  the  request  of  the  publishers  of  a  magazine  in 


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New  York  City,  as  it  so  closely   resembled  the 
design  on  their  cover. 

A  very  effective  plate  is  that  of  F.  JV.  Hoyf,  of 
Albany,  N.Y.  In  this  an  Ionic  column  forms  the 
whole  design.  Very  beautifully  engraved :  the 
lamp  of  Knowledge  is  continually  burning,  and 


continually  fed  on  the  top  of  the  capital,  while 
the  names  of  the  "  Immortals  "  are  bound  around 
the  shaft  on  a  ribbon,  —  Homer,  Dante,  Cervantes, 
Shakespeare,  Shelley.  The  name  of  the  owner  is 
carved  upon  the  base. 

In  the  plate  of  Samnel  Wesley  Marvin,  is  de- 
picted the  sleeping  knight,  to  whom  come  Pleas- 


OF  THE      "*        A 

UNIVERSITY  ) 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        367 

ure  and  Knowledge,  each  with  her  offer  of 
satisfaction  and  reward.  The  motto,  Courage  le 
diable  est  mort,  is  seen  on  the  broad  ribbon  which 
is  laid  about  the  picture. 

The  plate  of  Adam  Van  Allen,  of  Albany,  is 
copied  from  the  plate  of  the  brothers  Goncourt, 
and  represents  the  left  hand  with  a  pair  of  dividers 


held  by  the  third  and  fourth  fingers,  while  the 
first  and  second  are  placed  upon  a  sheet  of  paper 
bearing  the  initials  V  A. 

Several  peculiar  plates  remain  to  be  mentioned, 
which  belong  to  no  style,. but  are  examples  of  the 
individual  taste  of  the  owners,  which  is  now  so 
marked  a  feature  of  book-plate  designing.  Not, 
as  formerly,  are  we  controlled  as  to  the  style 
which  we  shall  adopt,  but  each  book-lover  can, 


368  Americmt  Book-plates. 

without  appearing  eccentric,  place  whatever  de- 
sign he  chooses  within  his  book-covers. 

The  plate  of  the  well-known  litterateur^  W. 
Irving  Way,  of  Chicago,  is  simply  a  very  small 
bit  of  paper  with  his  initials  in  cipher  upon  it. 
The  plate  of  Fred  J.  Libbie,  of  Boston,  one  of  the 
largest  collectors  of  plates,  is  a  cryptogrammic 
arrano^ement  of  the  letters  formins^  his  name. 

An  old  plate  of  Richard  Hoe  Lawrence  carica- 
tures each  of  his  three  names  :  the  first,  by  the 
"  dickey  bird " ;  the  second,  by  the  agricultural 
implement  suggested  by  the  middle  name :  and 
the  third,  by  a  picture  of  the  emaciated  Saint 
Lawrence  frying  over  a  fire  of  flaming  fagots. 
As  he  fries,  he  reads  from  a  book  entitled,  Law- 
rence on  Gridiron. 

The  plate  of  Maidens  Benjamin,  of  New  York 
City,  is  a  punning  plate,  and  represents  the  gen- 
tleman himself  riding  his  hobb3Miorse,  which  is 
in  the  form  of  a  big  folio.  With  a  long  quill  for 
a  lance,  and  wearing  a  crucible  for  a  hat,  he  rides 
his  horse,  full  merrily.  The  plate  of  /.  LLiestand 
Hartman,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  is  very  curious.  In 
this,  the  shield  is  borne  by  a  skeleton,  who  stands 
erect,  with  the  lance  resting  in  the  right  arm. 
A  banner  floats  from  the  lance-head,  ribbons  rise 
in  profusion  on  either  side,  and  the  grinning  sen- 
tinel is  enclosed  in  the  fluttering  ends.  E.  A. 
Hitchcock,  of  the  United  States  Army,  has  a  plate 
of  peculiar  and  hidden  meaning.  In  this,  the 
prominent  feature  is  a  huge  dragon,  winged,  scaly, 
with  forked  tail  and  snakelike  head.  With  the 
end  of  his  tail  in  his  mouth,  he  forms  a  frame  of 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        369 

oval  form,  and  repulsive  kind,  for  a  picture  of  a 
little  girl,  who  seems  to  be  sitting  upon  a  honey- 
comb, and  who  holds  a  necklace  in  her  left  hand. 
The  motto,  Noii  nisi  Parvulis,  must  contain  some 
reference  to  the  event  recorded  in  the  book-plate. 
The  plate  of  George  Dudley  Seymour  has  the 
unusual  feature  of  a  large  representation  of  an 


'^old  door,  with  its  carved  posts,  and  pediment 
of  high-boy  style.  In  the  centre  of  the  design, 
above  this,  at  the  right,  a  small  view  is  given 
of  the  whole  house  from  which  the  door  is 
taken,  and  in  the  opposite  corner  a  scroll  bears 
the  words :  Captain  Charles  Churchill  hys  house 
at  Weathersjicld  in  the  Colony  of  Connecticut  in 
Newe   England,    1 754-1 8S5,      This    plate    is    by 


370  American  Book-plates. 

W.  F.  Hopson,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  is  very- 
effective.  Mr.  Hopson  s  own  plate  is  also  a 
very  beautiful  specimen  of  his  skill.  In  this,  the 
central. panel  is  filled  with  three  old  folios  in  aged 
condition,  tumbled  together  upon  the  table.  In 
the  upper  corners,  a  press  for  plate  work  and  a 
painting  on  an  easel  are  seen.  Below  the  central 
space,  a  closed  portfolio  affords  space  for  the 
record  of  the  number  of  the  volume.  About  all, 
are  elaborate  scrolls  of  rustic  design.  Over  the 
space,  a  small  kettle  holds  a  number  of  fine 
brushes,  and  the  motto  is  on  a  ribbon  which  is 
well  carried  through  the  scrolled  sides.  The 
motto  is  an  adaptation  of  one  of  older  date,  and 
reads  as  follows :  Old  books  to  read,  old  prints  to 
scan,  old  wood  to  carve,  old  friends  to  greet. 

As  yet,  we  have  but  one  example  of  the  work 
of  C.  W.  Sherborn,  the  celebrated  ensfraver,  of 
London,  among  our  American  book-plates.  This 
is  the  beautiful  plate  of  Mr.  S.  P.  Avery,  of  New 
York  City.  This  is  not  heraldic,  but  of  a  de- 
cidedly personal  bent,  and  very  indicative  of  the 
special  lines  of  collecting  to  which  the  owner  is 
devoted.  The  upper  part  of  the  plate  is  filled 
with  a  conventionalized  tulip  design,  which  is 
extremely  rich  in  appearance  and  graceful  in  dis- 
position. A  ribbon  bearing  the  name,  Samuel 
Pntnam  Aveiy,  flutters  in  and  out  among  the 
curves  of  the  tulip  stems  and  leaves.  Grouped 
at  the  lower  edge  of  the  plate  are  a  number  of 
books,  in  artistic  bindings,  one  being  noticeable 
as  having  a  Grolieresque  design.  The  titles  of 
most   of  the  books  can  be  read,  and  among  them 


A  Few  Recent  Examples.        371 

are  De  Bury,  Shakespeare,  Goethe,  Emerson,  Mon- 
taigne, Ruskin,  Bewick,  and  Washington  Irving. 
Rembrandt's  "  Three  Trees,"  also  found  among 
the  accessories  at  the  foot,  is  indicative  of  the 
collector  of  etchings.  The  graver,  eye-piece, 
cushion,  and  block  on  which  the  portrait  of 
Washinoton  is  cut,  denote  the  art  of  enoravino- 
and  the  head  of  Minerva,  which  rests  proudly 
upon  the  volume  of  Ruskin,  represents  the  patron 
of  Art.  This  plate  is  a  fine  example  of  the  pe- 
culiar personal  flavor  which  Sherborn  has  infused 
into  his  revival  of  this  particular  kind  of  German 
work.  The  grouping  of  the  books  at  the  bottom 
is  excellent,  and  the  graceful  sweeps  of  the  tulip 
pattern,  as  it  fills  the  upper  two-thirds  of  the 
plate,  are  very  pleasing.  The  motto.  Far  more 
seemly  ivere  it  for  thee  to  have  thy  Study  full  of 
Bookes  than  thy  purse  full  of  money  (Lilly),  is 
placed  beneath  the  design. 

Two  specimens  of  the  work  of  Paul  Avril,  for 
American  owners,  are  of  exceeding  daintiness 
and  delicacy  in  design  and  execution.  The  plate 
of  Clarence  H.  Clark  represents  Venus  in  gauzy 
drapery,  with  a  looking-glass  in  her  hand,  reclining 
yupon  a  pile  of  books,  some  of  which  are  closed. 
A  fragment  of  the  scroll  of  a  Chippendale  frame, 
with  one  or  two  roses  about,  complete  the  decora- 
tion. The  motto,  Amat  victoria  curam,  is  seen 
upon  the  open  page  of  a  folio  volume.  The  plate 
is  very  light  and  pretty. 

In  the  plate  of  George  B.  De  Forest,  by  the 
same  artist,  we  are  ushered  into  the  library  of 
the  owner.     Here  a  cherub  draws  back  the  cur- 


372  American  Book-plates. 

tain,  and  affords  a  view  of  the  treasures  upon  the 
well-filled  shelves,  not  only  to  the  beholder,  but 
also  to  a  scantily  clad  female  who,  with  one  foot 
upon  the  step  of  the  shelf-ladder,  appears  to  halt 
in  an  ecstasy  of  delight.  An  open  book  on  the 
floor,  and  a  portfolio  standing  near  the  shelves, 
complete  the  accessories.  The  whole  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  frame  of  foliated  scrolls. 

In  the  plates  of  Dr.  Henry  C.  Eno  we  have 
examples  of  the  owner's  personal  skill  as  an 
etcher.  In  one  design,  a  lighted  candle  is  placed 
upon  a  closed  book,  which  is  labelled  Ex  Libris 
Volume,  and  is  presumably  filled  with  rare  treas- 
ures among  our  very  early  American  plates. 
The  second  plate  represents  a  lighthouse,  with 
rolling^  waves  at  its  foot.  The  broad  bands  of 
lisht  stream  from  the  lio^hted  lantern,  across  the 
black  night.  The  scene  is  enclosed  within  a 
circular  frame.  This  is  set  upon  a  background, 
which  may  represent  a  fish-net,  and  is  finally 
enclosed  by  a  border  of  rope.  A  bit  of  rope  tied 
in  a  sailor's  knot  lies  under  the  lighthouse  pic- 
ture, and  supports  the  name.  Ex  Libris  H.  C. 
Eno. 

Among  collectors,  there  has  been  of  recent 
years  a  strong  desire  to  secure  specimens  of  the 
plates  of  the  ladies.  In  England,  where  the 
heraldic  features  of  a  lady's  plate  are  required  to 
be  in  some  respects  very  different  from  those  of 
the  gentleman,  they  may  be  said  to  constitute  a 
class  by  themselves.  But  with  us,  while  of  equal 
interest,  they  do  not  show  any  marked  difference 
in  their  design  from  the  gentlemen's.     Indeed, 


./  Few  Recent  Examples.        373 

most  of  them,  if  not  all,  would  serve  just  as  well 
for  one  as  for  the  other.  The  plate  of  Charlotte 
Cushman,  which  is  heraldic,  is  incorrect,  if  judged 
by  the  rules  of  the  art.  The  arms  are  not  in  a 
lozenge,  the  crest  is  given,  and  the  motto  is  dis- 
played. But  the  plate  has  none  the  less  a  deep 
interest  to  the  American  collector,  who  indeed 
can  well  afford  to  overlook  any  trifling  irregu- 
larities which  may  be  pointed  out  by  a  student 
of  a  science  not  in  vogue  with  us.  Habco  pro 
jus  fasqtie  is  the  motto  on  the  plate.  Two 
other  heraldic  plates  are  now  used  by  American 
ladies.  The  plate  of  Mrs.  E.  H.  L.  Barker, 
of  Warren,  R.I.,  is  designed  by  Mr.  J.  McN. 
Stauffer,  and  is  heraldically  correct,  in  that  no 
crest  is  given,  and  that  the  frame  enclosing  the 
arms  is  of  the  required  form.  However,  the 
motto  is  given,  and  the  animal  of  the  crest  is 
made  to  do  service  as  a  supporter  of  the  rod  on 
which  the  shield  rests.  The  plate  is  small,  and 
very  neat  in  appearance.  The  plate  of  Miss  Jessie 
Brewster,  of  Shelton,  Conn.,  is  a  plain  armorial, 
displaying  the  arms  claimed  by  the  descendants 
V  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  Massachusetts. 
Another  Rhode  Island  plate,  and  one  which  is 
representative  of  the  hobbies  of  the  owner,  is  that 
of  Mrs.  Alonzo  Elint,  of  Providence.  This  is  a 
large  plate,  in  the  centre  of  which  is  an  arrow-head 
of  flint,  in  reference  to  the  name  of  the  owner.  In 
the  corners  are  displayed  books,  easel  and  palette, 
violin,  music  and  'cello,  and  two  cathedral  spires, 
—  all  indicative  of  the  likings  and  pursuits  of  the 
user  of  the  plate.     A  wreath  of  ragged  chrysan- 


374 


American  Book-plates. 


thcmums  and  ivy  leaves  surrounds  the  central 
design,  on  which  a  beehive  is  placed,  among 
hollyhocks.     This   is,   as   was   intended,    a   plate 


whose  every  part  is  illustrative  of  the  interests  of 
the  owner,  who  was  also  its  designer. 

The  plate  of  Mrs.  Julia  Dexter  Coffin,  of  Wind- 
sor Locks,  Conn.,  was  designed  and  is  used  wholly 


A  Few  Recent  Rxainples.        375 

for  books  of  music,  or  in  her  library  of  musical 
literature.  The  scene  is  within  the  choir  of 
some  temple.  A  flood  of  light  enters  the  lofty 
apartment  from  the  open  door  at  the  far  end  of 
the  wall,  and  the  small  diamond  panes  of  the 
large  window  reveal  nothing  of  the  outside  world. 
Seated  upon  the  stone  bench,  in  the  foreground, 
clad  in  classic  robes,  a  member  of  the  chorus, 
inspired  by  some  longing,  has  come  alone,  to  pour 
forth  her  feelings  in  song.  The  lyre  in  her  hands 
is  of  old  and  ornamental  design.  Behind  her, 
upon  the  wall,  runs  a  dado  on  which  the  sacred 
dance  is  pictured ;  and  above  this  a  large  mural 
painting  can  be  seen.  In  the  niche  by  the  door 
stands  a  statue  of  Terpischore.  The  sound  of 
the  music  seems  to  fill  the  room. 

Purely  decorative,  and  having  no  particular 
meaning  beyond  illustrating  the  motto,  is  the 
plate  of  OpJiclia  Fowler  DuJime,  The  motto, 
Inter  folia  fructas,  is  given  at  the  top  of  the 
plate,  and  the  strawberry  plant,  bearing  both 
flower  and  fruit,  fills  the  whole  space  below. 

Two  Cupids  disport  themselves  among  sweet 
M  roses,  in  the  plate  of  Finances  Louise  Allen. 

In  the  plate  of  Margaret  M.  Miller,  a  cherub, 
with  the  hair  in  a  Psyche  knot,  sits  upon  a  closed 
book,  and  inscribes  the  names  of  the  "  Immortals  " 
upon  a  scroll. 

In  the  plate  of  Miss  Ada  Stezvart  Shelton,  of 
Derby,  Conn.,  the  motto,  Phis  penser  que  dire,  is 
given  with  the  name  and  a  single  pansy  blossom 
within  a  rectangular  frame  which  has  pansies  at 
each  corner. 


376 


American  Book-plates. 


In  the  plate  of  Mary  Bayliss,  we  have  a  frame 
of  Chippendale  tendency.  The  scrolls  are  edged 
with  shell-work,  and  the  flowers  are  free  and 
natural. 

Very  interesting  and  successful  work  in  de- 
signing and  engraving  book-plates  is  now  being 
done  by  Mr.  E.  D.  French,  of  New  York  City, 
Mr.  E.  H.  Garrett,  of  Winchester,  Mass.,  and  by 
Mr.  W.  F.  Hopson,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  all  of 
whom  are  represented  in  this  volume  by  prints 
from  the  original  coppers. 


AMERICAN    COLLECTORS    AND    COL- 
LECTIONS. 


OLLECTORS  of  book-plates 
are  not  very  numerous  in  the 
United  States;  but,  small  as 
their  number  is,  it  has  reached 
the  present  figure  almost  at  a 
bound,  for  we  now  count  about 
seventy,  who  are  collecting, 
while,  four  years  ago,  there 
were  scarcely  a  score. 
A  survey  of  our  collections  shows  that  all  are 
particularly  interested  to  collect  American  plates. 
The  early  American  examples  are  few,  and  daily 
becoming  scarcer,  as  the  search  for  them  grows 
hotter,  and  the  competition  between  prospective 
owners  increases. 
^  The  scarcity  and  value  of  our  early  specimens 
are  not  appreciated  fully  by  our  brother-collectors 
over  the  sea,  nor  is  our  national  pride  in  keeping 
them  within  our  borders  realized.  Having  so 
few,  we  cannot  be  lavish  with  the  rare  examples 
we  are  able  to  find ;  and  so  it  comes  about  that 
the  demand  for  our  plates  is  not  met  as  it  once 
was.  The  book-plates  of  our  ancestors  are  not 
so  easily  found  as  are  those  of  the  past  generation 
in  the  older  countries.     Books  were  fewer  here, 

377 


378  American  Book-plates. 

devastation  by  fire  and  pillage  has  ruined  much 
that  we  lament  over,  and  the  good  old  plates  turn 
up  but  rarely  now. 

Our  collections  are  not  large  as  compared 
with  the  (jiffantic  a2:o-reo-ations  which  we  hear  of 
as  beins:  made  in  Eno^land.  Think  of  one  col- 
lector  having  one  hundred  thousand  specimens ! 
The  largest  collection  here  will  not  exceed  six 
thousand,  and  those  next  nearest  to  that  fall  some 
two  thousand  behind  it.  Our  collections  are  good, 
representative  of  the  best  foreign  styles  and  dates, 
and  do  not  include  much  that  is  valueless.  "Small, 
if  need  be,  in  numbers,  but  excellent  in  quality," 
would  seem  to  be  the  maxim  of  those  who  collect 
over  here.  German  plates,  particularly  of  the 
oldest  engravers,  French  plates,  and  the  English 
})lates  of  men  of  prominence,  are  well  represented. 
Plain  heraldic  plates  are  not  held  in  high  esteem, 
while  the  Pictorial,  Literary,  Library  Interior,  and 
Ladies'  plates  are  all  sought  for. 

Among  the  very  first  to  enter  the  field  as  a 
collector  of  book-plates  in  the  United  States  was 
the  late  James  Eddy  Mauran,  of  Newport,  R.L 

Mr.  Mauran  was  a  New  Yorker  by  birth,  the 
son  of  a  West  India  merchant.  He  was  a  pains- 
taking collector,  a  close  student,  and  a  man  fully 
acquainted  with  the  foreign  languages,  and  the 
literature  of  the  times  he  felt  an  especial  interest 
in.  While  deeply  interested  in  other  lines  of 
research  and  collecting,  he  found  time  to  gather 
a  good  collection  of  American  and  foreign  book- 
plates, which  were  mounted  with  the  nicety  and 
taste  shown  in  all  branches  of  his  collectins:. 


Collectors  and  Collections.         379 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1888,  he  had  about 
3500  plates  in  all,  and  they  were  appraised  by- 
Mr.  Hewins,  a  friend  of  Mr.  Mauran,  at  three 
hundred  dollars,  and  were  sold  to  a  Philadelphia 
gentleman.  Mr.  Mauran  had  a  way  of  mounting 
his  plates  which  was  original  and  unique.  He 
pasted  them  down  on  pieces  of  marbled  paper, 
and  other  kinds  of  paper  used  in  the  ornamental 
binding  of  books.  He  was  at  pains  to  obtain 
from  binders,  stationers,  and  booksellers  all  the 
pieces  of  paper  of  this  kind  that  could  be  found, 
in  order  to  have  as  many  different  mounts  as 
possible.  These  papers  were  all  mounted  on 
stiffer  white  paper,  and  formed  a  good  substantial 
ground  for  the  final  mounting. 

His  titled  plates  were  mounted  on  gold  and 
silver  paper;  and  the  ladies'  plates  on  bits  of  silk, 
damask,  satin,  or  old  pieces  of  brocade  and  other 
things  pertaining  to  ladies'  wear.  The  Ameri- 
can plates  were  mounted  on  the  older  styles  of 
marbled  papers,  and  on  fancy  patterns  and  colors 
in  use  years-  ago.  They  were  numbered  on  the 
back,  and  were  kept  in  alphabetical  order.  Very 
often  the  back  of  the  mount  was  covered  with 
notes  about  the  owner  of  the  plate.  Portraits, 
autographs,  views  of  houses,  and  sketches  of  the 
owners  from  newspapers,  were  also  mounted  and 
placed  with  the  plate  they  were  identified  with. 
The  plates  were  kept  in  old  book-covers  of  fine, 
polished  calf,  beautifully  tooled  on  the  back  and 
edges.  An  interesting  history  is  connected  with 
these  covers.  Mr.  John  Austin  Stevens,  of  New 
York,  had  made  a  fine  collection  of  the  poetry, 


378  American  Book-plates. 

devastation  by  fire  and  pillage  has  ruined  much 
that  we  lament  over,  and  the  good  old  plates  turn 
up  but  rarely  now. 

Our  collections  are  not  large  as  compared 
with  the  o-iorantic  ao;oTe2:ations  which  we  hear  of 
as  beins:  made  in  Enfj:land.  Think  of  one  col- 
lector  having  one  hundred  thousand  specimens ! 
The  largest  collection  here  will  not  exceed  six 
thousand,  and  those  next  nearest  to  that  fall  some 
two  thousand  behind  it.  Our  collections  are  good, 
representative  of  the  best  foreign  styles  and  dates, 
and  do  not  include  much  that  is  valueless.  "Small, 
if  need  be,  in  numbers,  but  excellent  in  quality," 
would  seem  to  be  the  maxim  of  those  who  collect 
over  here.  German  plates,  particularly  of  the 
oldest  engravers,  French  plates,  and  the  English 
plates  of  men  of  prominence,  are  well  represented. 
Plain  heraldic  plates  are  not  held  in  high  esteem, 
while  the  Pictorial,  Literary,  Library  Literior,  and 
Ladies'  plates  are  all  sought  for. 

Among  the  very  first  to  enter  the  field  as  a 
collector  of  book-plates  in  the  United  States  was 
the  late  James  Eddy  Mauran,  of  Newport,  R.L 

Mr.  Mauran  was  a  New  Yorker  by  birth,  the 
son  of  a  West  India  merchant.  He  was  a  pains- 
taking collector,  a  close  student,  and  a  man  fully 
acquainted  with  the  foreign  languages,  and  the 
literature  of  the  times  he  felt  an  especial  interest 
in.  While  deeply  interested  in  other  lines  of 
research  and  collecting,  he  found  time  to  gather 
a  good  collection  of  American  and  foreign  book- 
plates, which  were  mounted  with  the  nicety  and 
taste  shown  in  all  branches  of  his  coUectino:. 


Collectors  and  Collections.         379 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1888,  he  had  about 
3500  plates  in  all,  and  they  were  appraised  by- 
Mr.  Hewins,  a  friend  of  Mr.  Mauran,  at  three 
hundred  dollars,  and  were  sold  to  a  Philadelphia 
gentleman.  Mr.  Mauran  had  a  way  of  mounting 
his  plates  which  was  original  and  unique.  He 
pasted  them  down  on  pieces  of  marbled  paper, 
and  other  kinds  of  paper  used  in  the  ornamental 
binding  of  books.  He  was  at  pains  to  obtain 
from  binders,  stationers,  and  booksellers  all  the 
pieces  of  paper  of  this  kind  that  could  be  found, 
in  order  to  have  as  many  different  mounts  as 
possible.  These  papers  were  all  mounted  on 
stiffer  white  paper,  and  formed  a  good  substantial 
ground  for  the  final  mounting. 

His  titled  plates  were  mounted  on  gold  and 
silver  paper;  and  the  ladies'  plates  on  bits  of  silk, 
damask,  satin,  or  old  pieces  of  brocade  and  other 
things  pertaining  to  ladies'  wear.  The  Ameri- 
can plates  were  mounted  on  the  older  styles  of 
marbled  papers,  and  on  fancy  patterns  and  colors 
in  use  years-  ago.  They  were  numbered  on  the 
back,  and  were  kept  in  alphabetical  order.  Very 
often  the  back  of  the  mount  was  covered  with 
notes  about  the  owner  of  the  plate.  Portraits, 
autographs,  views  of  houses,  and  sketches  of  the 
owners  from  newspapers,  were  also  mounted  and 
placed  with  the  plate  they  were  identified  with. 
The  plates  were  kept  in  old  book-covers  of  fine, 
polished  calf,  beautifully  tooled  on  the  back  and 
edges.  An  interesting  history  is  connected  with 
these  covers.  Mr.  John  Austin  Stevens,  of  New 
York,  had  made  a  fine  collection  of  the  poetry, 


380  American  Book-plates. 

ballads,  and  romances  of  the  mediaeval  ages, 
which  was  bound  in  the  sumptuous  style  men- 
tioned. Upon  the  occasion  of  a  visit  to  Europe, 
Mr.  Mauran,  who  was  a  friend  of  Mr.  Stevens, 
sav/  them  carefully  packed  in  boxes,  which  were 
deposited  in  the  vaults  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce building  in  New  York,  and  insured  for  ten 
thousand  dollars.  During  the  absence  of  the 
owner,  the  negro  janitor  of  the  building  broke 
open  the  boxes,  and,  tearing  out  the  insides  of 
the  treasured  volumes,  sold  them  for  waste  paper ! 
Portions  were  recovered ;  but  the  covers  were  of 
no  further  use  as  originally  intended,  and  they 
fell  to  Mr.  Mauran,  who  used  them  to  hold  his 
book-plates.  This  collection  was  quite  rich  in 
the  early  plates  of  America ;  for  Mr.  Mauran, 
being  well-nigh  the  first  in  the  field,  had  the 
cream  of  collectino^  for  some  time,  and  was  able 
to  secure  plates  which  now  are  not  to  be  had. 

Not  very  long  ago,  this  collection  changed 
hands  again,  as  the  first  purchaser,  having  no  time 
to  make  use  of  the  plates,  was  w^illing  to  sell  them 
to  some  collector  who  could  make  them  of  greater 
use  among  others  interested  in  the  same  topic. 
In  some  way  the  collection  became  disrupted, 
and  parts  of  it  are  owned  by  different  collectors. 

Mr.  E.  N.  Hewins  is  one  of  the  older  collectors 
among  us.  Mr.  Hewins  has  a  very  interesting 
album  of  American  plates,  in  which  a  goodly 
number  of  the  rarer  specimens  find  a  resting- 
place.  Other  albums  are  used  for  the  foreign 
examples,  and  the  number  of  plates  in  the  collec- 
tion places  it  well   up  towards  the  head  of  the 


Collectors  and  Collections,         381 

list  of  large  and  valuable  collections.  The  plates 
are  classified  by  styles. 

Mr.  Richard  C.  Lichtenstein,  of  Boston,  has  a 
large  collection  of  book-plates.  A  part  of  his 
collection  is  arranged  alphabetically  in  a  large 
quarto  bound  in  brown  morocco,  with  gold  tool- 
ing, and  made  especially  for  the  purpose  with 
leaves  of  very  thin  tinted  paper.  Individual 
mounts  are  also  used.  This  collection  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  probably  the  best,  as  regards 
Americana,  of  all  in  the  United  States. 

Another  Boston  collector  who  has  been  col- 
lecting for  some  time,  and  who  has  a  valuable 
collection,  is  Mr.  Fred  J.  Libbie.  Mr.  Libbie 
has  a  copy  of  Warren,  most  beautifully  bound  in 
crushed  levant,  which  is  extra-illustrated  by  the 
insertion  of  rare  original  plates,  autograph  letters, 
portraits,  and  views.  The  volume  is  extended  to 
fully  three  times  its  original  thickness,  and  is  an 
elegant  specimen  of  the  book-binders'  art,  as  well 
as  a  most  valuable  storehouse  of  fine  book-plates. 
Other  works  on  the  subject  of  book-plates  are  in 
process  of  extra-illustration  by  Mr.  Libbie,  who 
is  an  enthusiastic  collector,  confining  himself  to 
no  specialties,  but  making  an  excellent  collection 
in  all  lines. 

The  largest  collection  of  plates  is  that  belong- 
ing to  Mr.  H.  E.  Deats,  of  Flemington,  N.J. 
This  industrious  collector,  while  a  rather  new 
comer,  has  distanced  all  the  older  men,  and,  being 
the  owner  of  the  bulk  of  the  Mauran  collection, 
has  some  very  fine  examples,  as  well  as  large 
numbers,  to  boast  of. 


382  American  Book-plates. 

Dr.  Henry  C.  Eno,  of  Saugatuck,  Conn.,  has  a 
large  and  valuable  collection  mounted  in  volumes 
bound  in  full  levant. 

We  number  among  our  collectors  several 
ladies,  and  it  is  earnestly  to  be  hoped  that  here, 
as  in  England,  we  may  have  plates  designed  by 
lady  artists.  Probably  the  earliest  lady  collector 
is  Mrs.  Richard  J.  Barker,  of  Warren,  R.I.,  who 
has  several  albums  filled  with  good  plates,  and 
who  has  contributed  an  interesting  article  on  the 
subject  of  early  American  plates  to  the  literature 
of  our  topic.  Other  ladies  who  are  collecting 
are  Miss  Helen  E.  Brainerd,  of  Columbia  College 
Library;  Mrs.  C.  H.  Duhme,  of  Cincinnati ;  Mrs. 
E.  M.  Gallaudet,  of  Washington;  and  Miss  Louise 
Fitz,  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

The  mounting  and  arrangement  of  plates  are 
vexed  questions  among  collectors.  The  really 
satisfactory  method  has  not  yet  been  discovered. 
Many  ways  are  tried ;  and  experience  shows  that 
while  one  may  at  different  times  think  he  has 
found  the  very  best  way,  its  disadvantages  are 
sure  to  appear,  and  a  new  method  will  be  looked 
for. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Bierstadt,  of  New  York,  keeps  his 
collection  in  large  albums  constructed  for  the 
purpose.  The  leaves  are  of  double  thicknesses 
of  heavy  calendered  manilla  paper.  The  plates 
are  pasted  down  on  mounts  of  a  stiff  white  ledger 
paper,  and  are  then  placed  in  the  book,  four  to 
the  page,  by  slipping  the  corners  of  the  mounts 
into  slits  cut  for  the  purpose  in  the  page.  This 
allows  the  easy  readjustment,  the  easy  exchange  of 


Collectors  and  Collections.         383 

a  poor  specimen  for  a  better  one,  the  re-placing 
of  a  plate  wrongly  classed,  and  the  extension  of 
alphabetical  arrangement  ad  injinittim.  The  ap- 
pearance of  the  volume  is  handsome. 

Mr.  Henry  Blackwell,  of  New  York,  is  mount- 
ing all  his  plates  on  rather  large  sheets  of  a  stiff 
paper,  of  a  dark  tint,  which  shows  off  the  plates 
to  good  advantage.  They  are  arranged  in  alpha- 
betical order,  and  are  kept  in  neat  wooden  boxes. 

The  plates  of  Mr.  Pickering  Dodge,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  are  mounted  on  a  dove-colored 
mount,  which  is  an  advantageous  tint.  The 
plates  are  arranged  according  to  styles.  This 
collector,  however,  is  about  to  change  to  albums. 

Mr.  Nathaniel  Paine,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  has 
his  plates  mounted  directly  upon  the  pages  of  an 
album  made  for  them.  Portraits,  views,  etc.,  are 
also  interspersed. 

The  present  writer  used  originally  the  indi- 
vidual mount ;  but  becoming  dissatisfied  with 
that  method,  because  of  injury  by  careless  hand- 
ling, adopted  the  albums,  using  in  both  instances 
the  "  hinges  "  of  the  stamp  collector  to  fasten  the 
plates  down  with.  He  is  now  changing  back  to 
the  individual-mount  plan,  as  it  admits  of  more 
freedom  in  comparison,  easy  changes,  and  the 
better  display  of  the  collection,  either  to  a  few,  or 
to  an  audience. 

The  larger  part  of  our  collectors  do  not  mount 
their  plates  at  all,  or  have  any  system  of  arranging 
them.  They  are  kept  in  odd  envelopes,  boxes, 
between  the  leaves  of  books,  or  in  a  desk-drawer, 
and  there  await  the  new  arrival,  or  the  shaking 


384  Americmi  Book-plates. 

up  incident  to  the  search  for  a  particular  speci- 
men.    This  is  ruinous. 

The  larger  part  of  our  collectors  are  members 
of  the  Ex  Libris  Society,  of  England,  while  many 
have  also  joined  the  societies  in  France  and 
Germany.  No  American  Society  has  as  yet 
been  seriously  proposed. 


A  LIST   OF   AMERICAN   MEMBERS  OF  THE  EX  LIBRIS 
SOCIETY. 

Charles  Dexter  Allen Hartford,  Conn. 

G.  A.  Armour Chicago,  111. 

S.  P.  Avery New  York  City. 

William  E.  Baillie Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Richard  J.  Barker Warren,  R.I. 

Walter  R.  Benjamin New  York  City. 

E.  H.  Bierstadt New  York  City. 

Henry  Blackwell New  York  City. 

E.  W.  Blatchford Chicago,  111. 

Boston  Athenaeum Boston,  Mass. 

Boston  Public  Library Boston,  Mass. 

Helen  E.  Brainerd New  York  City. 

William  George  Brown Lexington,  Va. 

J.  H.  Buck New  York  City. 

William  A.  Butterfield Boston,  Mass. 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Clark Lynn,  Mass. 

J.  H.  Corning      . Washington,  D.C. 

Hon.  W.  A.  Courtenay Charleston,  S.C. 

Dr.  R.  B.  Coutant Tarrytown,  N.Y. 

George  W.  Cram Norwalk,  Conn. 

H.  E.  Deats Flemington,  N.J. 

Pickering  Dodge Washington,  D.C. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Dubbs Lancaster,  Pa. 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Duhme Cincinnati.  Ohio, 

George  Wharton  Edwards New  York  City. 

Dr.  Henry  C.  Eno Saugatuck,  Conn. 

F.  W.  French Boston,  Mass. 


Collectors  and  Collections.         385 

E.  H.  Frost Charleston,  S.C. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Gallaudet Washington,  D.C. 

Christian  Gerhardt New  York  City. 

CxvoHer  Chib New  York  City. 

E.  N.  Hewins Boston,  Mass. 

A.  L.  Holhngsworth Boston,  Mass. 

W.  F.  Hopson New  Haven,  Conn. 

Paul  Lemperly Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Fred  J.  Libbie Boston,  Mass. 

Richard  C.  Lichtenstein Boston,  Mass. 

George  A.  Macbeth Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Mont;igue  Marks New  York  City. 

Charles  T.  Martin Hartford,  Conn. 

Thomas  L.  Montgomery Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Newberry  Library Chicago,  111. 

New  York  State  Library Albany,  N.Y. 

Nathaniel  L.  Paine Worcester,  Mass. 

George  B.  Perry Boston,  Mass. 

Daniel  Ravenel Charleston,  S.C. 

Henry  S.  Rowe Boston,  Mass. 

Rowfant  Club Cleveland,  Ohio. 

J.  Douglas  Scott Hyde  Park,  Mass. 

Heromich  Shugio     ........  Washington,  D.C. 

Howard  Sill Glendale,  Mass. 

Fred  Webber Washington,  D.C. 

Horace  W.  Whayman Newport,  Ky. 

John  P.  Woodbury Boston,  Mass. 

Worcester  Public  Library Worcester,  Mass. 

Others  who  have  collections,  or  who  are  in- 
terested in  book-plates,  but  are  not  members  of 
the  societies,  are  :  — 

Samuel  Auxer Lancaster,  Pa. 

Albert  C.  Bates Hartford,  Conn. 

Arlo  Bates Boston,  Mass. 

Robert  A.  Brock Richmond,  Va. 

Henry  M.  Brooks     . Salem,  Mass. 

Henry  B.  Bult New  York  City. 

H.  B.  Bryant Portland,  Me. 

2  c 


386 


American  Book-plates. 


Dr.  Swan  M.  Burnett Washington,  D.C. 

William  J.  Campbell Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Beverly  Chew New  York  City. 

Dartmouth  College  Library Hanover,  N.H. 

Henri  Pene  Du  Bois New  York  City. 

Howard  Edwards Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Paul  Leicester  Ford Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

Frank  B.  Gay Hartford,  Conn. 

Edward  D.  Harris New  York  City. 

Lauience  Hutton New  York  City. 

Chailes  C.  Moreau New  York  City. 

Edward  W.  Nash New  York  City. 

New  York  Historical  Society      ....  New  York  City. 

Henry  Thorpe Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

Lyon  G.  Tyler Williamsburg,  Pa. 

William  H.  Whitmore Boston,  Mass. 


THE    EX    LIBRIS    SOCIETIES. 


HE  Ex  Libris  Society,  of 
London,  was  organized  in 
1 89 1,  and  now  has  four  hun- 
dred members,  of  whom  about 
fifty  are  residents  of  the 
United  States.  The  Society 
pubHshes  a  handsomely  illus- 
trated Monthly  Journal,  which 
is  free  to  members.  The  An- 
nual Dues  are  ten  shillings,  sixpence.  The 
Entrance  Fee  is  two  shillings,  sixpence.  This 
Society  will  probably  limit  its  membership  and 
raise  its  dues  before  long.  All  persons  interested 
in  the  collecting  of  book-plates,  except  dealers  in 
plates,  are  eligible  to  membership.  The  pre- 
payment of  the  Entrance  Fee  and  the  Annual 
Dues  constitutes  one  a  member. 

The  Honorable  Secretary  of  the  Society  is 
Mr.  W.  H.  K.  Wright,  of  Plymouth,  England. 
The  Corresponding  Secretary  for  the  UnitecJ^ 
States  is  Mr.  Charles  Dexter  Allen,  Hartford, 
Conn. 


DES   EX-LIBRIS-VEREINS   ZU   BERLIN. 

The  German  Society  published  the  first  num- 
ber of  its  Quarterly  in  October,  1891.     This  is 

387 


388 


American  Book-plates. 


beautifully  illustrated  with  many  plates  in  colors, 
and  is  free  to  all  members.  The  Annual  Dues 
are  twelve  marks.  The  address  of  the  Secre- 
tary is,  Friedrich  Warnecke,  Friedrich-Wilhelms- 
strasse,  4.     Berlin,  W.,  Germany. 


SOCIETE  FRANCAISE  DES  COLLECTIONNEURS 
'  D'EX  LIBRIS. 

The  French  Society  was  organized  in  1893, 
and  published  the  first  number  of  its  Archives 
in  January,  1894.  This  monthly  is  free  to  all 
members.  The  Annual  Dues  are  nineteen  francs 
and  fifty  centimes.  The  address  of  the  Secretary 
is,  3  Foubourg  Saint-Jacques,  Paris. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

AMERICAN,   ENGLISH,   AND  FRENCH. 


THE    AMERICAN    BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

By  Eben  Newell  Hewins. 

Book-plate  collecting  in  the  United  States  is  of  such  recent 
growth  that  the  literature  on  the  subject  is  naturally  limited,  con- 
sisting of  only  a  few  scattered  magazine  and  newspaper  articles. 

The  following  list  is  believed  to  be  nearly,  if  not  quite,  com- 
plete. 

The  compiler  desires  his  thanks  to  all  who  have  assisted  him 
in  his  work ;  and  especially  would  he  thank  Mr.  H.  W. 
Fincham  and  Mr.  James  Roberts  Brown,  for  kind  permission  to 
use  their  exhaustive  English  Bibliography,  which  is  here  re- 
printed from  the  journal  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society ;  and  also 
Mr.  Walter  Hamilton,  for  permission  to  use  his  Bibliography, 
prepared  for  his  "  Hand-Book  of  French  Book-Plates." 

Additions  to  this  list  are  desired,  and  correspondents  having 
knowledge  of  articles  not  noted  here  will  confer  a  favor  by 
communicating  with  either  the  author  or  compiler. 

1.  The  Heraldic  Journal.     Vol.   I.,  American  book-plate  en- 

gravers ;  Thomas  Johnson,  p.  6  ;  Nat.  Hurd,  p.  19  ;  John 
Cole,  Jun.,  pp.  95-108.  Vol.  II.,  American  book-plate 
engravers ;  Thomas  Turner,  p.  94.  Vol.  III.,  The 
Harris  collection  of  book-plates,  pp.  21-24;  Thomas 
Child's  book-plate,  p.  190.  Vol.  IV.,  The  Spooner  book- 
plate, p.  45  ;  the  William  King  Atkinson  book-plate, 
p.  119  ;  Heraldic  Painters  and  Engravers,  p.  192. 

J.  K.  Wiggin,  Boston,  8vo,  1 865-1 868. 

2.  Whitmore  (William  H.).     Elements  of  Heraldry. 

Boston,  1866. 

Contains  copies  of  book-plates  and  notices  of  early  American  book- 
plate engravers. 

389 


390  American  Book-plates, 

3.  "Winsor  (Justin).     A  catalogue  of  the  collection  of  books 

and  manuscripts  formerly  belonging  to  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Prince,  .  .  .  now  deposited  in  the  public  library  of  the 
city  of  Boston,  v.,  viii.,  illustrated. 

Boston,  U.S.A.,  4to,  1870. 
Describes  the  various  book-plates  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  1687- 
1758. 

4.  Brown  (John  Cofiin  Jones).   The  Coffin  family,  its  armorial 

bearings,  and  origin  of  the  name,  illustrated. 

Boston,  8vo,  18S1. 

5.  Literary  "World.    A  Library  Pest,  July  2,  i88t.    The  Study 

of  Book-plates.  A  review  of  Warren,  Aug.  13,  1881. 
(By  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Henry  Dubbs.) 

Boston,  U.S.A.,  1881. 

6.  Leach  (Frank  Willing).     The  Right  to  bear  Arms,  illus- 

trated.     The  Continoii,  Vol.  III.,  pp.  513-523. 

Philadelphia,  Penn.,  U.S.A.,  April  25,  1883. 
Many  of  the  illustrations  given  are  copies  of  book-plates. 

7.  Lichtensteia    (Richard    C).       Early    Book-plates.       The 

Boston  Daily  Globe,  April  22,  1885. 

8.  Book-Mart.      Original   stanzas   for  insertion  on   the   fly- 

leaves of  lent  books,  III.,  27. 

Pittsburgh,  Penn.,  U.S.A.,  8vo,  1885. 

9.  The  Book  Buyer.     A  List  of  American  Book-plate  Collec- 

tors, III.,  165.  The  Original  and  Imitation  Washington 
Book-plate,  illustrated.  III.,  234.  Practical  Suggestions 
for  Book-plates,  illustrated,  III.,  377. 

New  York,  Scribner,  4to,  1886. 

10.  Hutton   (Laurence).     Some  American  Book-plates,  illus- 

trated. The  Book  Buyer,  Vol.  III.,  7-9,  63-65,  112- 
114,  159-161.  New  York,  Scribner,  4to,  1886. 

These  articles  were  reprinted  in  the  Ex  Libris  yournal.  Vol.  II., 
pp.  42,  52,  69. 

11.  New     York     Genealogical     and     Biographical     Record, 

Vol.  XVIIL,  No.  I.  Samuel  Provoost,  First  Bishop  of 
New  York.  An  address  to  the  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society.  Illustrated  with  portrait  and  book- 
plate of  Bishop  Provoost.  New  York,  January,  1887. 


The  American  Bibliography.     391 

12.  Lichtensteiii  (Richard  C).     Early  New  England  and  New 

York  Heraldic  Book-plates.  Neiv  England  Historical 
and  Genealogical  Register,  XL.,  295-299.  Published 
under  the  direction  of  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  Society.  Boston,  8vo,  1886. 

Also  privately  printed  with  additions. 

13.  Lichtenstein    (Richard    C).       Early    Southern     Heraldic 

Book-plates.     New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 

Register,  XLL,  296.     Published  under  the  direction  of 

the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 

.,        •    .  ,       •  .  J  Boston,  8vo,  1887. 

Also  privately  printed.  '  '  ' 

14.  Lichtenstein    (Richard    C).     American  Book-plates    and 

their  Engravers,  illustrated.  The  Curio,  11-17,  61-66, 
110-114;  Washington's  Library,  illustrated,  246-252. 

New  York,  U.S.A.,  R.  W.  Wright,  folio,  1887. 
The  Curio  was  discontinued  after  the  sixth  number. 

15.  Martin  (Charles  Towneley).     Book-plates  and  their  Early 

Engravers.     Cit}'  Mission  Record. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  1S88. 

16.  Dubbs  (Rev.  Dr.  Joseph   Henry).     Peter    Miller's    Book- 

plate. Reformed  CJinrch  Messenger  (Whitehall  Papers, 
second  series.  No.  V.). 

Philadelphia,  Penn.,  U.S.A.,  June  19,  1889. 

17.  The  Century  Magazine,  Vol.  XXXIX.     The  GroHer  Club, 

87.  New  York  and  London,  8vo,  1889. 

Contains  the  book-plate  of  the  Grolier  Club. 

18.  The    American  Book   Maker.       Book-plates,     illustrated. 

Vol.  XL,  No.  2,  8vo,  August,  1890;  Vol.  XHL,  No.  3, 
8vo,  September,  1891.  New  York,  U.S.A. 

19.  The  Book  Lover.     Edited   by   Ligersoll    Lockwood,  Phil. 

Bibl.  Book-plate,  A  Classical,  by  Rhead,  60 ;  An 
American,  35  ;  An  Artistic,  by  Rhead,  79  ;  Book-plates, 
by  Rhead,  53,  91;  Centennial,  by  A.  B.  Bogart,  69; 
Design  for,  23;  for  Cultured  Collectors,  115;  Book- 
plates, 13.     All  the  above  articles  are  illustrated. 

New  York,  William  Evarts  Benjamin,  8vo,  1890. 
Publication  discontinued  after  twelfth  number. 


392  Ainericaii  Book-plates. 

20.  The  Sunday  Sun.     South  Carolina  Book-plates. 

Charleston,  S.C.,  January  4,  1891. 

21.  Dubbs  (Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Henry).     Hobbies   and  How  to 

Ride  them.  'Ihe  Interior,  June  11,  18,  1891. 

Chicago,  111.,  1 89 1. 

These  articles  do  not  directly  refer  to  book-plates,  but  contain  inci- 
dental allusions. 

22.  Providence  Sunday  Journal.     Collecting  Book-plates,  Mrs. 

E.  H.  L.  Barker. 

Providence,  R.I.,  U.S.A.,  November  15,  1891. 

23.  The  News  and  Courier.     A  Bibliographical  Hint.     Some- 

thing about  Book-plates. 

Charleston,  S.C.,  U.S.A.,  March  i,  1892. 

24.  Stevenson    (E.   Ireneus).     The  Book-plate  and    How    to 

Make  it.      llic  Christian  Union. 

New  York,  U.S.A.,  April  30,  1892. 

25.  The  Collector.     Some  Historic  Book-plates  (Rev.  Dr.  J.  H. 

Dubbs),  v.,  151-152,  164-165,  176-177;  German 
Book-plates  of  Pennsylvania  (Rev.  Dr.  J.  H.  Dubbs), 
VI.,  3-5  ;  The  Book-plate  of  Jacob  Sargeant,  illustrated 
(Charles  Dexter  Allen)  ;  Collection  of  Book-plates,  VI., 
29.        New  York,  Walter  Romeyn  Benjamin,  4to,  1892. 

26.  Hutton    (Laurence).       From    the     Books     of     Laurence 

Hutton.  On  Some  American  Book-plates,  chapter  i., 
3-29.  New  York,  Harper  &  Bros.,  12 mo,  1892. 

A  reprint  of  the  articles  which  appeared  in  the  Booli  Buyer,  18S6, 
and  also  in  the  Ex  Libris  Journal,  Vol.  II. 

27.  American  Dictionary  of  Printing  and  Book-making,  Part 

iv.,  180,  181.     Ex  Libris,  illustrated. 

New  York,  Howard  Lockwood  &  Co.,  4to,  1892. 

28.  The  Book  Buyer.     Some   English  Book-plates.     A  review 

of  Mr.  Caslle's  book,  illustrated,  V.,  pp.  19-22.  Some 
French  Book-plates.  A  review  of  Mr.  Hamilton's  book, 
illustrated,  V.,  pp.  65-67. 

New  York,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  4to,  1S93. 

29.  The  Library  Journal.      Note  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society  of 

London.  New  York,  May,  1S93. 


The  American  Bibliography.     393 

30.  Jamaica    Plain    News.     Book-plates.     A    review   of    Mr. 

Castle's  book,  illustrated. 

Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  U.S.A.,  July  8,  1893. 

31.  The  Critic.     Book-plates    of   New    England    Authors.     A 

review  of  Mr.  Castle's  book,  illustrated,  Vol.  XIX.,  pp. 
82,  '&2)-  Some  American  Book-plates,  illustrated,  Vol. 
XX.,  pp.  88,  89. 

The  Critic  Company,  New  York,  folio,  1893. 

32.  The    Hartford    Post.     Hundreds    of    Book-plates    in    the 

Collection  of  a  Hartford  Gentleman,  illustrated. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  U.S.A.,  August  19,  1893. 

33.  The  Richmond  Despatch.     Arms  of  the  Virginia  Company. 

An  interesting  historical  book-plate.  R.  A.  Brock, 
Secretary  Southern  Historical  Society,  September  1 7, 
1893.  That  old  Book-plate.  Note  on  the  Arms  of  the 
Virginia  Company,  October  15,  1893. 

Richmond,  Va.,  U.S.A.,  1893. 

34.  The  Richmond  Despatch.     Note  on  the  Ex  Libris  Journal. 

Richmond,  Va.,  December  3,  1893. 

35.  The  Albany  Argus.     Note  on  Book-plate  of  the  Albany 

Library  Society. 

Albany,  N.Y.,  U.S.A.,  November,  1893. 

36.  Magazine  of  Art.     "  Ex  Libris."     A  review  of  Mr.  Castle's 

book.  New  York,  folio,  December,  1893. 

37.  The  Book-Lover's  Almanac.     The  Art  of  the  Book-plate, 

by  Henri  Bene  DuBois,  with  seven  caricature  designs  by 
Henriot.  The  Carroll  Book-plate,  by  Charles  Dexter 
Allen,  illustrated.  New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  1893. 

38.  The  Art  Amateur.    Ex-Libris  Notes,  illustrated.  Vol.  XXX., 

pp.  92,  121,  148,  173. 

New    York,    Montague    Marks,    Publisher,    25    Union 
Square,  folio,  1894. 

39.  The  Dial.     Private  Book-marks.     A  note  of  Mr.  Hardy's 

book,  p.  ^Z.  Chicago,  111.,  February  i,  1894. 


394  American  Book-plates. 

40.  The  Collector.     A  Current  Record  of  Art,  Bibliography, 

Antiquarianism,  etc.     Published  semi-monthly. 

Alfred  Trumble,  454  West  24th  Street,  New  York. 

The  following  numbers  contain  brief  articles  on  book-plates:  Vol. 
IV.,  Nos.  13,  14,  20;  Vol.  v.,  No.  I,  1893;  Vol.  v.,  Nos.  8,  9, 
1894.  This  is  not  to  be  confounded  with  The  Collector^  published 
by  Walter  R.  Benjamin. 

41.  The  Inland  Printer.     The  Book-plate,  its  Literature,  etc., 

by    VV.  Irving   Way,  illustrated.  Vol.  XII.,  No,  6,  pp. 
460-46 1 . 

The  Inland  Printer  Co.,  Chicago,  111.,  March,  1894. 

42.  Book  Reviews.     American  Book-plates, by  Charles  Dexter 

Allen. 

New  York,  Macmillan  &  Co.,  Vol.  II.,  No.  i.  May,  1S94. 


Allusions    to    book-plates,   or   reproductions   of    interesting 
plates,  are  found  in  the  following  works  :  — 

Bridgman  (Thomas).  The  Pilgrims  of  Boston  and  their 
Descendants.     Book-plate  of  Peter  Kemble,  Esq. 

Boston,  Phillips,  Sampson  &  Co.,  8vo,  1856. 

Maga2ine  of  American  History.  November,  1880,  Kissam 
book-plate,  p.  376  ;  February,  1881,  Washington's  book- 
plate, p.  88;  March,  1881,  Kissam  book-plate,  pp.  225, 
302;  April,  1881,  W.  Smith's  book-plate,  p.  274; 
August,  1884,  Roger  Morris ;  book-plate  of  Henry 
Clinton,  grandson  of  Sir  H.  Clinton. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  His  Maternal  Ancestors.  With  some 
Reminiscences  of  Him.  By  David  Greene  Haskins, 
D.D.  Boston,  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.,  12 mo,  1886. 

Book-plate  of  Rev.  William  Emerson,  father  of  Ralph  Waldo. 

Lion  Gardiner  and  his  Descendants,  by  Curtis  E.  Gardiner. 

St.  Louis,  1890. 

Book-plates  of  John  Gardiner,  Fifth  Proprietor  of  Gardiner's  Island, 
and  John  Lyon  Gardiner,  Seventh  Proprietor. 


The  American  Bibliography.     395 

History  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of 
George  Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United 
States.  New  York,  Appleton  &  Co.,  1892. 

Book-plate  of  George  Washington. 

Pene  DuBois  (Henri).     Four  Private  Libraries  of  New  York. 
New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  8vo,  1892. 
Book-plates  of  C.  JoUy-Bavoillet  and  George  B.  DeForest. 

Customs  and  Fashions  in  Old  New  England.  Book-plates,  p. 
286.     Alice  Morse  Earle. 

New  York,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1893. 

Jamaica  Plain  News.  Sketch  of  a  "  talk  "  on  Book-plates,  by 
Mr.  E.  N.  Hewins. 

Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.  U.S.A.,  March  3,  1894. 

Origin  and  Growth  of  the  Library  of  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society.  A  paper  presented  at  a  Meeting  of  the 
Society,  November  9,  1893,  by  Samuel  Abbott  Green, 
M.D.     Pamphlet. 

John  Wilson  &  Son,  University  Press, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  1893. 

Describes  the  various  book-plates  used  by  the  Society,  and  is  illus- 
trated with  several  fac-similes. 

The  Jaunceys  of  New  York.     Pamphlet,  24  pp. 

New  York,  1876. 

William  Jauncey's  book-plate  for  frontispiece. 

Annals  of  the  Van  Rennselaers  in  the  United  States,  by  Rev. 
Maunsell  Van  Rennselaer,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Albany,  8vo.,  pp.  241.      1888. 
Book-plate  of  K.  K.  Van  Rennselaer,  to  face  page  214. 

Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  Vol.  IX., 
page  14. 

Book-plate  of  Sir  John  St.  Clair.      Notices  on  him  by  Charles  R. 
Hildeburn.      188;. 


396  American  Book-plates. 

THE    ENGLISH    BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
By  H.  W.  Fincham,  Esq.,  and  James  Roberts  Brown,  F.R.  G.S. 

[Reprinted  by  their  kind  permission.] 

1.  Bartsch    (Adam).       Le    Peintre   Graveur,  Vol.  VII.,    for 

I)lales  by  Diirer  and  others. 

Vienna,  21  vols.,  8vo,  1803-182 1. 

2.  Moiile  (Thomas).     Bibliotheca  Heraldica  Magnge  Britan- 

nise,  pp.  367-388.  London,  royal  8vo,  1822. 

Moule  used  the  cut  on  the  title-page  as  his  bool^-plate. 

3.  The  Gentleman's  Magazine.     Remarks  on  the  invention  of 

book-plates,  Part  ii.,  613.  London,  8vo,  1822. 

4.  The  Gentleman's  Magazine.      Book-plates  (C.  S.  B.),  Part 

i.,  198-199.  London,  8vo,  1823. 

5.  Wadd   (William).      IVIems.,  Maxims,   and   Memoirs,  pp. 

146-147.  London,  Callow  &  Wilson,  8v^o,  1827. 

6.  Parsons  (Rev.  Daniel).     On  Book-plates.      Third  Annual 

Report   of  the  Oxford   University   Archaeological   and 
Heraldic  Society,  pp.  17-25. 

Oxford,  J.  Vincent,  royal  8vo,  1837. 

7.  Notes    and    Queries,  ist  Series.       Book-plates,  whimsical 

one,  vi.,  32  ;  motto,  i.,  212  ;  early,  iii.,  495  ;  iv.,  46,  93, 
354;  vii.,  26;  xi.,  265,  351,  471  ;  xii.,  35,  114. 

London,  1849- 185  5. 

8.  Dennistoun    (James).     Memoirs    of  Sir    Robert    Strange 

.  .  .  and  Andrew  Lumisden,  ii.,  283-284. 

London,  Longman,  2  vols.,  8vo,  1855. 

Gives  the  dates  of  three  book-plates  engraved  ])}■  Strange. 

9.  Notes    and  Queries,   2d    Series.      Book-stamps,  armorial, 

X.,  409.  London,  1856-1861. 

10.  Notes  and  Queries,  3d  Series.  Book-plates,  armorial, 
vi.,  306;  their  heraldic  authority,  xii.,  117,  218.;  by 
R.  A.,  wood  engraver,  viii.,  308.      London,  1862-1867. 


TJie  EnglisJi  Bibliography.        397 

n.    Beaupre  (M.).     Notice  sur  quelques  Graveurs  Nanct§iens 
du  XVIII  Siecle.        Nancy,  Lucien  Wiener,  8vo,  1862. 

Contains    description    of   a    number    of     book-plates    engraved    by 
Dominique  Collin. 

12.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  i. 

13.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  i. 

14.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  2. 

15.  Leighton,    F.S.A.     (John).        Book-plates,     Ancient     and 

Modern,  with  examples,  illustrated.  Gcnileman''s 
Magazine,  4th  Series,  Vol.  I.,  pp.  798-804. 

London,  8vo,  June,  1866. 

Reprinted  in  the  Ex  Lihris  ^ourna^,  ]u\y,  1891;   also  reprinted  in 
the  British  and  Colonial  Printer  and  Stationer,  August  6,  1891. 

16.  Hugo,   M.A.  (Thos.).     The   Bewick  Collector,  illustrated, 

pp.  303-322.  London,  Reeve  &  Co.,  8vo,  1866. 

17.  Larousse   (Pierre).     Ex  Libris,  mots    latins  qui  signifient 

litteralement  des  livres,  d'entre  des  livres,  faissant  partie 
des  livres,  avec  le  nom  du  propri(^taire.  Ces  mots 
s'inscrivent  ordinairement  en  tete  de  chaque  volume 
d'une  bibliotheque  avec  la  signature  du  propri^taire. 
On  connait  ce  trait  d'ignorance  d'un  financier,  homme 
d'ordre  avant  tout,  qui  avait  ordonn^  a  son  chapelier  de 
coUer  soigneusement  au  fond  de  son  chapeau,  "  Ex 
Libris  Vaudore."  Grand  Dictionnaire  Universel  du 
XIX  Siecle,  Vol.  7.         Paris,  16  vols.,  4to,  1866-1877. 

18.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  i. 

19.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  i. 

20.  Notes  and  Queries,  4th  series.     Book-plates,  armorial,  iv., 

409,  518;  v.,  65,  210,  286;  ix.,  160;  exchanged,  x., 
519.  London,  1868- 18  73. 

21.  Hugo,  M.A.  (Thos.).     The  Bewick  Collector  Supplement, 

illustrated,  pp.  xxiii.,  152-155. 

London,  Reeve  &  Co.,  8vo,  1868. 

22.  Howard,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.    (Joseph  Jackson).       Miscellanea 

Gcnealogica  ct  Herali/ica,  illustrated.  Vol.  L  Examples 
of  Armorial  Book-plates  :  Hooke,  i  703  ;  Rogers,  1 700  ; 
Rogers,  Gage,  1805  ;  Dallaway,  284;  Billingsley,  Eger- 
ton,  1707  ;  Snell,  299.  London,  royal  Svo,  1868. 


398  American  Book-plates. 

23.  Bibliophile  Francais.     Gazette  illustree  des  amateurs,  de 

livTe  d'estampes,  et  des  hautes  curiosites. 

Paris,  7  vols.,  royal  8vo,  1868-1873. 
This  work  incorporates  the  "Armorial  du  Bibliophile"  of  Guigard. 

24.  Bachelin-Deflorenne,  bookseller,  of  Garrick  Street,  Covent 

(iarden,  London,  December,  1869.  Catalogue  of,  de- 
scribes two  book-plates  dated  respectively  1279  and 
1314.      Vide  The  Book  Fancier,  P.  Fitzgerald,  p.  129. 

25.  Guigard   (Joannis).      Armorial  du  bibliophile,  avec  illus- 

trations dans  le  texte. 

Paris,  Bachelin-Deflorenne,  2  vols.,  8vo,  18 70-1 8 7 2. 

Ct)ntains  about  1400  cuts  of  super-libris. 

26.  Tourneaux  (Maurice).    Ex  Libris.   Amateur  d'autographes. 

April,  1872.  An  article  on  the  collection  of  ex  libris  in 
the  possession  of  M.  Aglaiis  Bouvenne. 

27.  Notes  and  Queries,  5th  Series.      Book-plate,  R.  T.  Prit- 

chett's,  ix.,  29,  75';  query,  x.,  428  ;  armorial,  i.,  386  ; 
exchanged,  i.,  60,  199;  ii.,  159;  punning,  iv.,  464;  v., 
35  ;  handbook  of,  vi.,  465  ;  vii.,  36,  76  ;  heraldic,  vi., 
369*  543;  vii.,  28,  36,  76,  233,  435,  515;  earliest 
known,  vii.,  76,  235;  mottoes  on,  vii.,  427;  viii.,  in, 
258;  collections,  vii.,  435,  515;  viii.,  38,  79,  118,  158, 
178,  360;  xi.,  260;  dated,  viii.,  200,  298,  397,  517; 
ix.,  198  ;  xi.,  446  ;  xii.,  33  ;  how  to  arrange  collections, 
ix.,  20;  papers  on,  ix.,  360.  London,  1874-1879. 

28.  Poulet-Malassis    (A.).     Les    Ex  Libris  Frangais,    depuis 

leur  origine  jusqu'a  nos  jours.     Plates. 

Paris,  P.  Rouquette,  royal  8vo,  1874. 

29.  De  Rieffenberg.    De  Marques  et  devises  mises  a  leur  livres 

l)ar  un  grande  nombre  d'amateurs.  Paris,  1874. 

30.  Athenaeum.       "  Les     Ex   libris    Francais."       Review    of 

Poulet-.XLalassis'  book  "Les  Ex  Libris  Frangais." 

London,  p.  469,  October  9,  1875. 

31.  Longperier-Grimoard    (Comte    de).       Etude    sur    les    Ex 

Libris.  Senlis,  8vo,  8  pp.,  1875. 

A  paper  read  before  the  Comite-Archeologique  de  Senlis,  December 
II,  1874. 


The  English  BibliograpJiy.        399 

32.  Longperier-Giinioard    (Comte  de).     Letter    to    Monsieur 

Aubry  on  a  Super- Libris  of  Crozat.  Bulletin  de 
Bouquiniste,  No.  416.  Paris,  Aubry,  April  15,  1875. 

33.  Poulet-Malassis  (A.).     Les  Ex  Libris  Frangais.     Nouvelle 

edition,  revue,  tres-augment^e  et  orn^e  de  vingt-quatre 
planches.  Paris,  P.  Rouquette,  royal  8vo,  1S75. 

34.  Tooke  (M.  A.).      Notes  on  Book-plates,  illustrated.      The 

Art  Journal,  new  series,  XV.,  267-270. 

London,  Vertue,  folio,  September,  1876. 

35.  Longperier-Grimoard  (Comte  de).    Une  marque  inconnue 

(College  du  cardinal  le  Moine).         Paris,  Aubry,  1876. 

Reprinted  from   the   Bulletin   dc  Bouquiniste,  December  i    and    15, 
1876. 

36.  Van  de  Haeghen.     Dictionnaire  des  devises  des  hommes 

des  lettres,  imprimeurs,  libraires,  bibliophiles,  etc. 

1S76-1879. 

37.  Howard,    LL.D.,    F.S.A.    (Joseph    Jackson).     Aliscellanea 

Genealogica  et  Heraldica,  Vol.  IL,  illustrated.  Examples 
of  Armorial  Book-plates  :  Barker,  505  ;  Beddington, 
244;  Bovvdon,  525;  De  Burgo,  1720,  287;  Cary- 
Elwes,  556;  Furneaux,  170;  Gomm,  184;  Haslewood, 
128  ;  Hilliard,  87  ;  Lorimer,  421  ;  Palmer,  487  ;  Potter, 
570;  Waldy,  583.  London,  royal  8vo,  1877. 

38.  Pall  Mall  Gazette.    Occasional  Notes,  "  Old  Bookworm," 

p.  4,  November  19  ;  p.  5,  December  18. 

London,  1877. 

39.  The  Genealogist,  Vol.  IL      Book-plate  of  Anthony  Stewart, 

illustrated,  192. 

London,  Golding  &  Lawrence,  8vo,  1878. 

40.  "Warren,  M.A.    (The  Hon.  J.  Leicester).       Guide    to    the 

Study  of  Book-plates.      Plates. 

London,  John  Pearson,  8vo,  1880. 

41.  The  Bookseller.     A  Guide  to  the   Study  of  Book-plates. 

Review  of  Warren's  book,  "  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of 
Book-plates."  London,  October  6,  1880. 


400  American  Book-plates. 

42.  The  Graphic.     The  Reader.     Review  of  Warren's   book, 

"A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates." 

London,  October  iC,  1880. 

43.  Saturday  Review.     Book-plates.     A    review  of  Warren's 

book,  "  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates." 

London,  October  20,  1880. 

44.  The  Academy.     Art   Books.     Review  of  Warren's    book, 

"  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates." 

London,  November  13,  1880, 

45.  The    Antiquary,    edited    by    E.    Walford,    ALA.,    Vol.    I. 

Notes  on  Book-plates,  75-77;  Book-plates  (W.  Hamil- 
ton), 1 1  7-1 18;  Book-plates,  189;  Notes  on  Curious 
Book-plates,  236-237  ;  Another  Chapter  on  Book-plates 
(Alfred  Wallis),  256-259. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1880. 

46.  The  Antiquary,  edited   by  E.  Walford,  M.A.,  Vol.  IL      A 

Sup])lementary  Chapter  on  Book-plates,  6-10;  An 
Essay  on  Book-plates  (E.  P.  Shirley),  115-118;  Book- 
plates, 133,  272.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1880. 

47.  Howard,   LL.D.,    F.S.A.    (Joseph    Jackson).     Miscellanea 

Gencalogica  et  Hcraldica,  Vol.  IIL,  illustrated.  Examples 
of  Armorial  Book-plates:  Andrews,  171  ;  Bedford,  189 
Carson,  156  ;  Burr,  156  ;  Courthope,  327  ;  Dalton,  438 
Fenwick,  Note  respecting  Bewick,  433  ;  Gregory,  290 
Harrington,    1706,    195;     Hoblyn,    353;     Hyett^  95 
Jackson,  402;  Millard,  445  ;  Mitchell,  loi,  143;  Nott 
1763.    233;      Ridgway,    1871,    47;     St.    George,    82 
Strangways,   22;  Tomes,   273;  Waggett,  182;  Walters, 
226,  252  ;  White,  1878,  206  ;  AVoodroffe,  65. 

London,  royal  8vo,  1880. 

48.  Notes  and  Queries,  6th  Series.     Book-plates,  collections 

of,  i.,  2,  178,  197,  266,  386;  ii.,  272,  302;  vi.,  161, 
298  ;  X.,  24  ;  of  Lord  Keane  and  others,  i.,  336  ;  ii.,  34, 
94,  255  ;  "As"  on,  i.,  516  ;  armorial,  ii.,  367,  396,  427  ; 
iii.,  73,  126,  278,  298  ;  xi.,  267,  410  ;  their  removal,  ii., 
445,  491  ;  iii.,  31  ;  their  arrangement,  iii.,  28,  130,  195  ; 
dated,  iii.,  204,  302  ;  iv.,  206,  247,  466,  486  ;  v.,  9,  78, 
151;  vi.,  357;  vii.,   146,   166;  ix.,  480;  X.,  34;  accu- 


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129;  German,  269,  373;  Arthur  Charlett's,  xi.,  267, 
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50.  Nouvelle  etude  sur  I'unversit^  de  Pont-a-mousson. 

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52.  The   Antiquary,  Vol.    IV.      Last  Words   on  Book-plates, 

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53.  Dobson   (Austin).     The  Book-plate's  Petition:  a  poem. 

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402  American  Book-plates. 

57.  Paper    and    Priiiting    Trades    Journal.       Ex  Libris,    illus- 

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London,  4to,  1881. 

58.  Western  Antiquary,  Vol.  I.,  edited  by  W.  H.  K.  Wright, 

F.R.H.S.     Book-plates,  Francis  Drake's,  32,  illustrated  ; 
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Plymouth,  4to,  1881. 

59.  Daily  News.      A  leader  on  book-borrowers,  book-plates, 

and  mottoes.  London,  April  29,  1881. 

60.  Lang  (Andrew).      The  Libra7'\\  pp.  42-59. 

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61.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  5. 

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London,  The  Globe  office,  8vo,  n.d. 

63.  The  Antiquary,  Vol.  V.     Book-plates,  85,  86. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1882. 

64.  Antiquarian    Magazine    and    Bibliographer,   edited  by  E. 

Walford,  I\LA.,  Vol.  L  Notes  on  English  Book-plates, 
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London,  Reeves,  royal  8vo,  1882. 

65.  Antiquarian    Magazine    and    Bibliographer,   edited  by  E. 

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48,  106,  161,  322. 

London,  Reeves,  royal  8vo,  1882. 

66.  Palatine  Note  Book,  Vol.  H.     Book-plates,  18,  illustrated. 

Manchester,  4to,  1882. 

67.  Printing    Times    and    Lithographer.     Curiosities  of  Book- 

plates, viii.,  265-26S,  290-292. 

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68.  Western  Antiquary,  edited  by  W.  H.  K.  Wright,  F.R.H.S., 

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69.  Paper    and    Printing    Trades    Journal.     A  Curious  Book- 

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70.  The  Antiquary,  Vol.  VII.     Book-plates,  early  reference  to, 

231.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1883. 

71.  Antiquarian    Magazine    and    Bibliographer,  edited  by  Yj. 

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London,  Reeves,  royal  8vo,  1883. 

72.  Antiquarian    Magazine    and    Bibliographer,  edited  by  E. 

Walford,  M.A.,  Vol.  IV.  Book-plates  (W.  Hamilton), 
no,  III.  London,  Reeves,  royal  8vo,  1883. 

73.  Palatine  Note  Book,  Vol.  III.     Book-plates,  51,  97,  191, 

233,  illustrated.  Manchester,  4to,  1883. 

74.  Benoit  (Arthur).     Les  Ex  Libris  de  Schoepflin,  illustrated. 

Paris,  8vo,  1883. 

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75.  Benoit  (Arthur).     Les  Ex  Libris  dans  les  trois  ^veches, 

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76.  Antiquarian    Magazine    and    Bibliographer,  edited  by  E. 

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London,  royal  8vo,  1884. 

77.  Griggs  (W.).     Eighty-three  examples  of  Book-plates  from 

Various  Collections.     Plates.     Privately  printed. 

W.  Griggs,  Hanover  Street,  Peckham,  London,  4to,  1884. 

78.  Hovrard,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.      (Joseph  Jackson).     Miscellanea 

Genealogica  et  Heraldica,  Vol.  IV.,  illustrated.  Exam- 
ples of  Armorial  Book-plates:  Carew,  154;  Clutton, 
300;  Collins,  274;  Fletcher,  214;  Gidley,  19;  Hay- 
man,  54;  Heysham,  375;  Heywood,  202;  Humphry, 
314;  Littleton,  166;  Lynch,  387;  Meade,  6;  Pole, 
131;  Pringle,  190;  Symons,  250;  Soltau,  250;  Tra- 
herne,  102;  Underbill,  78;  Wickham,  67;  Wilmer, 
238  ;  Wilmer  Ex  Dono,  1599,  238. 

London,  royal  8vo,  1884. 


404  American  Book-plates. 

79.  Benoit  (Arthur).     Les   bibliophiles,  les   coUectioneurs,  et 

les  bibliotheques  des  monasteres  des  trois  ^veches,  1552- 
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80.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  8. 

81.  Day,  F.S.A.,  M.R.I.A.    (Robert).      Notice  of  book-plates 

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Privately  reprinted,  7pp.,8vo.     Reprinted  in  the  Ex  Libris  yournal, 
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82.  Day,  F.S.A.,  M.R.I.A.  (Robert).      "  Ex  Libris."      Journal 

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B>^.    See  American  Bibliography,  No.  7. 

84.  Western  Antiquary,  edited  by  W.  H.  K.  Wright,  F.R.H.S., 

Vol.  IV.     Book-plate  of  J.  O.  H.  Glynn,  t,^,  illustrated. 

Plymouth,  4to,  1885. 

85.  The  Antiquary,  Vol.  XIII.     Book-plate,  231,  278. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1886. 

86.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  9. 

87.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  9. 
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89.  East   Anglian,  edited  by  the  Rev.  C.  H.  Evelyn  White, 

F.S.A.     Pretyman's  Book-plate,  New  Series,  i.,  246. 

Ipswich,  8vo,  1886. 

90.  Fitzgerald  (Percy).     The  Book  Fancier,  128-131. 

London,  Sampson  Low,  8vo,  1886. 

91.  Howard,    LL.D.,    F.S.A.   (Joseph    Jackson).      Miscellanea 

Genealogica  et  Heraldica,  2d  Series,  Vol.  I.,  illustrated. 
Examples  of  Armorial  Book-plates:  Brownlowe,  1698, 
221  ;  Chauncy,  28;  Chetwode,  85  ;  Lady  Mary  Booth, 
Chetwood,  122  ;  Conder,  61  ;  Dade,  31 1  ;  Bering, 
1630,  285  ;  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Exeter,  268  ;  Murray, 
347  ;  Shank,  235  ;  Smith,  347  ;  Walpole,  364. 

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92.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  lo. 

93.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  12. 

94.  Locker-Lamson  (Frederic).     The  Rowfant  Library,  a  cata- 

logue of  the  printed  books,  manuscripts,  autograph 
letters,  .  .  .  collected  by  F.  Locker-Lamson. 

Printed  for  presentation,  royal  8vo,  1886.  Contains  three  varieties 
of  F.  L.-L.'s  book-plates,  and  at  p.  176:  "Note. —  I  think  Sir 
William  (Stiiling-Maxwell)  designed  above  a  hundred  book-plates 
for  himself  and  his  friends.     F.  L." 

95.  Notes    and    Queries,    7th    Series.      Book-plates,     English 

mentioned  in  1720,  i.,  65  ;  heraldic,  i.,  44S  ;  ii.,  15,  56  ; 
Graeme,  ii.,  49,  98,  154  ;  with  inscription,  364  ;  "I  love 
my  books,"  etc.,  ii.,  410,  455  ;  date  of,  iii.,  24S  ;  owner 
of,  iv.,  109;  spurious,  iv.,  148,  212;  engraved  by 
Heylbrouck,  v.,  48,  174  ;  of  Suffolk,  vi.,  508;  Friedrich 
Nicolai's,  xi.,  109,  213,333  ;  Ex  Libris  Society,  160,  360. 

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96.  Quentin-Bauchart  (E.).     Les   Femmes  bibliographiles   de 

France  (XVF,  XVIL',  et  XVIIL'  Siecles).  Avec  43 
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97.  Franks,  F.R.S.,  V.P.S.A.  (Augustus  W.).     Notes  on  Book- 

plates, No.  I,  English-dated  Book-plates,  15 74-1800. 

Printed  for  private  distribution,  8vo,  32  pp.,  1887. 

98.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  14. 

99.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  14. 

100.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  13. 

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102.  Encyclopaedic     Dictionary.      "  Book-plate,     a     piece     of 

paper  stamped  or  engraved  with  a  name  or  device  and 
pasted  in  a  book  to  show  the  ownership." 

London,  Cassell,  royal  8vo,  1888. 

103.  Gentleman's    Magazine    Library.      Literary    Curiosities, 

Book-plates,  82-86,  325. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  8vo,  1888. 


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104.  Ho-ward,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.    (Joseph  Jackson).     Aliscellatiea 

Gcnealogica  et  Heraldica,  2d  Series,  Vol.  II.,  illustrated. 
Examples  of  Armorial  Book-plates  :  Bardett,  294  ;  Biss, 
152;  Draper,  24;  Owen,  368;  Scheurl-Tucker,  by  A. 
Diirer,  104,  105,  120;  Gibson,  196. 

London,  royal  8vo,  1888. 

105.  Tit-Bits.     Book-stealing,  107.        London,  May  26,  1888. 

106.  Western  Antiquary,  edited  by  W.  H.  K.  Wright,  F.R.H.S., 

Vol.  VII.  Curious  Book-lines,  by  George  Wightwick, 
160,  161.  Plymouth,  4to,  1888. 

107.  The    Antiquary,    Vol.     XIX.       Book-plates,     proposed 

magazine  for,  39.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1889. 

loS.    The  Bookworm.     Book-plates  and  their  mottoes,  205. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  8vo,  June,  1880. 

109.  Chambers'  Encyclopaedia.  Book-plates,  New  Edition, 
Vol.  II.,  309. 

London,  W.  &  R.  Chambers,  8vo,  18S9. 

no.  Howard,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.  (Joseph  Jackson).  Miscellanea 
Genealogica  et  Heraldica,  2d  Series,  Vol.  III.,  illustrated. 
Examples  of  Armorial  Book-plates :  Burfoot,  396 ; 
Barton,  188;  Rachel,  Dutchess  of  Beaufort,  1706,  276; 
Conduit,  188;  Darwin,  1737,  17;  Darwin,  1771,  17; 
Dering,  1630,  56  ;  Dering,  56  ;  Hopkins,  261  ;  Keith, 
88;  Monypenny,  56;  Shuckburgh,  256;  Toilet,  72; 
Taddy,  261  ;  Webster,  37.        London,  royal  8vo,  1889. 

iir.  Quaritch  (Bernard).  Catalogue  of  fifteen  hundred  books 
remarkable  for  the  beauty  or  age  of  their  bindings,  or 
as  bearing  indications  of  former  ownership  by  great 
book-collectors  and  famous  historical  personages. 

London,  Bernard  Quaritch,  8vo,  1889. 

112.  Rylands,  F.S.A.  (J.  Faul).  Notes  on  Book-plates  (ex 
libris),  with  special  reference  to  Lancashire  and 
Cheshire  examples,  and  a  proposed  nomenclature  for 
the  shapes  of  shields.     Plates. 

Liverpool,  privately  printed,  demy  4to,  1889. 
Also  in  "Transactions  of  the   Historic   Society  of  Lancashire  and 
Cheshire,"  pp.  1-76,  illustrated. 

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113.  Carlander   (C.  M.).       Svenska    Bibliotek  och   Ex  Libris 

auteckningar,  med  84  illustrationer. 

Stockholm,  Adolf  Johnson,  8vo,  n.d.  (1889). 

114.  Aveling    (S.    T.).       Heraldry:    Ancient    and    Modern 

Book-plates,  370-371,  illustrated. 

London,  F.  Warne  &  Co.,  8vo,  1890. 

115.  The  Book-Plate  Collector's  Miscellany,  a  monthly  sup- 

plement to  the  JVestern  Antigiiarv,  illustrated.  Edited 
by  W.  H.  K.  Wright,  F.  R.  Hist.  Soc. 

Plymouth,  W.  H.  Luke,  4to,  1 890-1 891. 

116.  Howard,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.   (Joseph  Jackson).     Miscellanea 

Genealogica  et  Hcrahlica,  2d  Series,  Vol.  IV.,  illus- 
trated. Examples  of  Armorial  Book-plates  :  N.  D'Eye, 
25  ;  Ball,  R.  Ball  Dodson,4i  ;  Paul  Jodrell,  89  ;  Vassall, 
120;  Cooke,  1712,  136;  Sr.  G.  Cooke,  1727,  152; 
Harrison,  1698,  168;  Langley,  184;  Wyndham,  201; 
Prentice,  216;  Yardley,  1721,  Yardley,  1739,  232. 

London,  royal  8vo,  1890. 

117.  Demmin  (A.).     Papier  u.  andere  Beschreibstoffe  Schreib- 

gerath,  Handschrift,  Buch,  Buchandel,  u.  Zeitungswesen, 
Buchdruck  —  u.  Buchbinderkunst,  Buchdrucker  —  u. 
Bucherzeichen  (Ex  Libris),  Liitialen,  Zieleisten.  With 
46  illustrations.  Wiesbaden,  8vo,  1890. 

118.  Giiigard  (Joannis).     Nouvelle  Armorial   du    Bibliophile, 

Guide  de  I'Amateur  des  Livres  Armories.  Contenant 
la  Reproduction  de  2500  Armoiries  et  Riches  Reliures 
Armoiriees.     Paris,  Emile  Rondeau,  2   vols.,  8vo,  1890. 

119.  Warnecke   (P.).       Die    Deutschen    Bucherzeichen    (Ex 

Libris).  Von  ihrem  Ursprunge  bis  zur  Gegenwort. 
Twenty-one  illustrations  in  the  text,  and  26  plates. 

Berhn,  T,  U.  Stargardt,  royal  8vo,  1890. 

120.  Rogers  (Walter  Thomas).      A  Manual  of  Bibliography, 

103-105,  with  diagrams. 

London,  H.  Grevel  &  Co.,  8vo  (1890),  1891. 

121.  Bouchot  (Henri).     Las    Ex    Libris    et  Les  Marques  de 

Possession  du  Livre.     Fifteen  plates. 

Paris,  Edouard  Rouveyre,  8vo  (1890),  1891. 


4o8  American  Book-plates. 

122.  The  Antiquary,  Vol.  XXIII.     A  notice  of  the  Ex  Libris 

Society,  142.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  4to,  1891. 

123.  The     British     Bookmaker.       Book    Notes,    a    review    of 

"  Les  Ex  Libris  "  (Bouchot), illustrated,  Vol.  IV.,  No. 47, 
p.  5.  "Ex  Libris,"  illustrated.  Vol.  IV.,  No.  48,  p.  4. 
Book-plates,  Vol.  V.,  No'.  49,  p.  8. 

London,  Raithby,  Lawrence  &  Co.,  4to,  1S91. 

124.  Hardy,  F.S.A.  (W.  J.).     Book-plates.     The  Libra?'y,\i\., 

47-53,  93-98.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  8vo,  1891. 

125.  The   Library.       Record    of  Bibliography.       Reviews    of 

"  Die  deutschen  Biicherzeichen "  (Warnecke)  and 
"Les  Ex  Libris  "  (Bouchot),  iii.,  17-19. 

London,  EUiot  Stock,  Svo,  1S91. 

126.  The  Daily  Chronicle.     Book-plates,  April  i.     A  note  of 

the  Ex  Libris  Society,  July  22.  London,  1891. 

127.  Oxford  University  Herald.     The  Ex  Libris  Society. 

Oxford,  May  23,  1891. 

128.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  20. 

129.  Journal  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society,  illustrated. 

London,  A.  &  C  Black,  for  the  Society,  4to,  1891. 

130.  British    and    Colonial    Printer   and   Stationer.     The  Ex 

Libris  Society,  July  16.  Book-plates,"  Ancient  and 
Modern,  with  illustrations  (a  reprint  of  No.  15),  August 
6.     Book-plates,  October  15.        '  London,  1891. 

131.  The  Daily  Free  Press.      A  leading  article  upon  collecting 

Book-plates  and  the  Ex  Libris  Society. 

Aberdeen,  July  17,  1891. 

132.  The  Globe.     Book-plates.  London,  July  25,  1891. 

133.  The    Saturday   Review.     Book-plates,  a    review  of  the 

Ex  Libris  Journal.  London,  July  25,  1891. 

134.  The  Daily  News.      A  note  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society. 

London,  August  3,  1891. 

135.  The  Publishers'  Circiilar.      Book-plates. 

London,  August  8,  1891. 


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136.  Answers.     The  Collecting  Fad. 

London,  4to,  December  12,  1891. 

137.  Griggs  (W.).     Examples  of  Armorial  Book-plates,  Second 

Series.     Plates. 

London,  W.  Griggs  &  Sons,  Ld.,  4to  (1891),  1892. 

138.  Carlander    (C.    M.).     Svenska    Bibliotek    och    Ex  Libris 

anteckningar  IL,  med  22  illustrationer. 
Stockholm,  Gernandts  Boktoyckeri-Aktiebolag,  8vo,  1891. 

139.  Le  Iiivre  Moderiie,  Vol.  IV.     Remarques  sur  Quelques 

Ex  Libris  Contemporains,  illustrated,  1-18  ;  Quelques 
Nouveaux  Ex  Libris,  illustrated,  323-330. 

Paris,  Maison  Quantin,  small  4to,  1891. 

140.  La    Curiosite    Universelle.     A  propos  d'Ex  Libris,    No. 

228.  Le  Plus  Grand  Ex  Libris,  Nos.  248,  250,  251, 
252,  et  254.  Review  of  the  German  Ex  Libris  Society's 
younial.  No.  258.  Paris,  4to,  1891. 

141.  Ex  Libris.     Zeitschrift  fiir  Biicherzeichen  Bibliotheken- 

kunde  und  Gelehrtengeschichte.  Organ  des  Ex  Libris 
zu  Berlin,  illustrated. 

Berlin,  C.  K.  Starke,  4to,  No.  i,  October,  1891. 

142.  Benoit  (Arthur).     Le  Serpent  Embleme  des  Chirurgiens 

et  des  Medecins.  6  pp.,  n.d. 

Treats  of  serpents  appearing  on  book-plates.      An   extract    from 
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Illustrations  of  Book-plates  are  to  be  found  in  the  following 
works,  apart  from  the  bibliography  of  the  subject :  — 

143.  Grace,  F.S.A.   (Sheffield).       Memoirs  of  the  Family  of 

Grace.  London,  royal  8vo,  1823. 

.Illustrated  with  above  a  dozen  book-plates  of  Grace  family,  some 
dated. 

144.  Dibdin,    D.D.    (Thomas    Frognall).       A     Bibliographical 

Tour  in  the  Northern  Counties  of  England  and  Scot- 
land. Trotter  Brockett's  book-plate  by  Bewick,  illus- 
trated, i.,  392.  London,  8vo,  1838. 


41  o  American  Book-plates. 

145.  Eyton,  F.S.A.  (Joseph  Walton  King).     Catalogue  of  the 

Library  of.  London,  large  paper,  royal  8vo,  1848. 

Illustrated  with  three  examples  of  J.  W.  King  Eyton's  book-plates, 
one  of  which  is  in  colors. 

146.  Palmer,  F.S.A.    (Charles    John).       The    Perlustration   of 

Great  Yarmouth. 

Great  Yarmouth,  3  vols.,  4to,  1872-1875. 

A  number  of  book-plates  are  used  here  to  illustrate  the  arms  of  the 
families  mentioned. 

147.  Siennicki   (S.  J.).     Les    Elzevirs  de  la  Biblioth^que  de 

rUniversite  Imperiale  de  Varsovie.  1874. 

Contains  eighteen  fac-similes  of  remarkable  book-plates  in  Warsaw 
University  Library. 

148.  Warnecke  (F.).     Heraldische  Kunstblatter. 

Gorlitz,  C.  A.  Starke,  3  vols.,  folio,  1876. 
Contains  many  fac-similes  of  German  book-plates. 

149.  Siennicki  (S.  J.).     Recueil  des  editions  des  imprimeurs 

c^lebre  de  I'ltalie,  de  la  France,  et  de  la  Belgique  con- 
servees  dans  la  BibUotheque  de  I'Universit^  Imperiale 
de  Varsovie.  1878. 

Contains  fac-similes  of  remarkable  book-plates  in  Warsaw  Univer- 
sity Library. 

150.  Leighton,  F.S.A.   (John).      Suggestions    in    design,  .  .  . 

with  descriptive  and  historical  letter-press,  by  J.  K. 
Collings,  F.R.LB.A.  Blazon,  Heraldry,  Rebuses,  &c., 
plates,  50,  51,  52,  53,  54. 

London,  Elackie  &  Son,  4to,  1880. 

151.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  6. 

152.  Asta  Libraria  Antdquaria  Catalogo,  N.  42. 

Florence,  Franchi  &  Co.,  February,  1886. 

The  catalogue  contains  fac-similes  of  a  Medicean  Super  Libros,  and 
of  another  not  identified. 

153.  Griggs  ("W.).     Illustrations   of  Armorial  China.     Plates. 

Privately  printed,  folio,  18S7. 

Contains  a  number  of  fac-similes  of  book-plates. 

154.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  17. 

155.  The  Strand  Magazine,  Vol.  II.  London,  4t0,  1891. 
Page  120,  the  book-plate  of  H.  Stacy  Marks,  R.A. 


The  English  Bibliography.        41 1 

156.  Blackburn    (Henry).      Randolph  Caldecott,  a   personal 

reminiscence,  194-196. 

London,  Sampson  Low,  Marston  &  Co.,  8vo,  1891. 

Contains  a  description  of  the  "  Seaman  "   book-plate  by  R.  Calde- 
cott, with  illustration. 

157.  Theydon  Mount:  its  Lords  and  Rectors.     Edited  by  J. 

J.  Howard,  Farnham  Burke,  and  the  Rev.  L.  N.  Prance. 
Privately  printed,  4to,  n.d.  (1891). 

Contains   a   fac-simile  of  the  book-plate  of  "  Sir  Edward  Smith, 
of  Hill  Hall,  Co.  Essex,  Bart.,"  and  another. 

158.  See  American  Bibliography,  supplementary  list. 


The  following  articles  having  appeared  since  the  English  list 
was  prepared,  are  here  inserted  :  — 

The  Yellow  Book.     An  Illustrated  Quarterly.     Cuts  of  book- 
plates by  Aubrey  Beardsley  and  R.  Auning  Bell,  p.  251. 
London,  Elkin  Mathews  and  John  Lane. 
Boston,  U.S.A.,  Copeland  &  Day,  Vol.  L,  8vo,  April,  1894. 

The  Strand  Magazine.  The  handwriting  of  Mr.  Gladstone, 
with  fac-similes.     Vol.  VIIL,  No.  43. 

London,  8vo,  July,  1894. 
Fac-simile  of  early  book-plate  of  Mr.  Gladstone. 

Daily  News.  Book-plate  collecting.  A  review  of  Mr.  Hamil- 
ton's "  Dated  Book-plates,  Part  L" 

London,  July  17,  1894. 

Quakerana,  No.  5,  July,  1894,  page  77.  Note  of  Ex  Libris 
Society's  exhibition  in  July,  1894,  with  special  reference 
to  book-plate  of  William  Penn. 

London,  Edward  Hicks,  Jun.,  14  Bishopsgate  Street 
Without,  E.C. 

The  Studio,  edited  by  Gleeson  White,  has  contained  several 
articles  on  book-plates.  Vol.  HL,  No.  16,  July  16,  1894  : 
result  of  a  prize  competition  for  a  book-plate  design, 
with  22  designs  reproduced;  Vol.  HL,  No.  17,  August 
15,  1894 :  cuts  of  three  book-plates  and  review  of 
Hamilton's  "  Dated  Plates."  London,  1894. 


412  American  Book-plates. 

ADDITIONAL    BIBLIOGRAPHY   OF   BOOK-PLATES. 
By  H.  IV.  Fincliam  and  yaines  Robert  Broivn,  F.R.  G.S. 

[Reprinted  from  the  Journal  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society.] 

1 .  Historic  Society  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire.     Proceedings 

and  Papers.  Description  of  a  Warrington  Book-plate 
(Dr.  J.  Kendrick),  illustrated,  134-135. 

Liverpool,  8vo,  1854. 

2.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  3. 

3.  Portalis    (Le    Baron    Roger)    et    Beraldi    (Henri).      Les 

Graveurs  du  Dix-Huitieme  Siecle,  illustrated,  3  vols,  in  6. 
Paris,  Morgand  et  Fatout,  8vo,  1880-1882. 
Contains  lists  of  book-plates  by  many  French  engravers. 

4.  Spectator.     "  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates."     (A 

review  of  Warren.)  London,  October  13,  1880. 

5.  St.  James  Gazette.     "A   Guide    to  the    Study   of  Book- 

plates."    (.A.  review  of  Warren.) 

London,  October  14,  1880. 

6.  The  Athenaeum.     Mr.  Thorn's  book-plate. 

London,  May  21,  1S81. 

7.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  4. 

8.  Beraldi  (Henri).     Les    Graveurs   de   XIX     Siecle,   illus- 

trated, 12  vols. 

Paris,  L.  Conquet,  8vo,  1885-1892. 

Contains  lists  of  book-plates  by  many  French  engravers. 

9.  Foreiiing  for  Boghaandvaerk.     Aarsskrift    1890  und  1891. 

Mit  einer  Buchdruckfarbentafel,  zalreichen  Autotypien 
und  Holzschnitten,  Schriften,  Druckerzeichen,  Ex  Libris 
und  Einbande  reproducirend. 

Kopenhagen,  2  vols.,  4to,  1891. 

10.   Ledien  (Alcius).     Les  Reliures  Artistiques  et  Armori^es 
de  la  Bibliotheque  Communale  d'Abbeville,  illustrated. 
Paris,  Gruel-Engelmann,  4to,  1883. 


A dditioiial  Bibliography.         413 

11.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  i8. 

12.  See  American  Bibliograpliy,  No,  27. 

13.  The  Antiquary.     Unique  Book-plates.     Erasmus  and  Dr. 

Hector  Pomer  (H.  W.  Pereira).  Illustrated,  xxv., 
242-244.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  8vo,  1892. 

14.  The  Bookworm.     A   Hunt   for  Book-plates  in  Paris  (W. 

Hamilton),  171-173;  the  Avery  Book-plate,  202. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  8vo,  1892. 

15.  Castle   (Egerton),  M.A.,  F.S.A.      English  Book-plates,  an 

illustrated  handbook  for  students  of  Ex  Libris. 

London,  George  Bell  and  Sons,  imp.  i6mo,  1892. 

Second  and  enlarged  edition,  1S92. 

16.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  25. 

17.  La    Curiosite    Uiiiverselle.     Un    souvenir   de    la  Terreur, 

illustrated ;  Franc-Magonnerie ;  Le  plus  grand  Ex 
Libris,  No.  262  ;  Publication  sur  las  Ex  Libris,  Nos.  265, 
266,  267,  268,  and  269  ;  Ex  Libris  d'Auvergne  (Am- 
broise  Tardien),  illustrated  ;  Appel  aux  CoUectionneurs 
d'Ex  Libris,  No.  269 ;  Ex  Libris  Rares  et  Inedits 
(Ferd.  Reiber)  ;  Un  grand  Ex  Libris  (Fr.  Perot)  ;  Un 
autre  souvenir  de  la  Terreur  (L.  B.)  ;  Ex  Libris 
Alsaciens;  Societ(^s des  CoUectionneurs  d'Ex  Libris,  No. 
288;  Les  Ex  Libris  Oratoriens  (P.  Ligold),  illustrated. 
No.  299.  Paris,  4to,  1892. 

18.  Dictionary   of    English    Book    Collectors.     Billibald  Pirk- 

heimer  (^L  Kerney),  illustrated,  Part  i. 

London,  Bernard,  Quaritch,  8vo,  1892. 

19.  Fincham  (H.  W.)  &  Brown  (James  Roberts)  F.R.G.S.     A 

bibliography  of  book-plates. 
Plymouth,  printed  for  private  distribution,  8vo,  24  pp.,  1892. 

20.  Griggs  (W.).     One  hundred  and  forty-seven  Examples  of 

Armorial  Book-plates  from  various  collections  (second 
series).     Plates. 

London,  W.  Griggs  &  Sons,  4to,  1892. 

2  1,    Hamilton  (Walter).     French  Book-plates.     A  handbook 
for  Ex  Libris  Collectors,  illustrated. 

London,  George  Bell  &  Sons,  imp.  i6mo,  1892. 


414  American  Book-plates. 

22.  Hildetrandt  (Professor  Ad.  M.).     Heraldic    Book-plates. 

Twenty-five  Ex  Libris  invented  and  drawn  by. 

Berlin,  J.  A.  Stargardt,  8vo,  1892. 

23.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  26. 

24.  lucimabula,  geographica  et  chalcograpliica,  illustrated. 

Munich,  Ludwig  Rosenthal's  Antiquariat,  folio,  1892. 
A   catalogue  of  early  woodcuts,  containing  a  number  of  very  early 
German  Ex  Libris,  among  them  being  that  of  Hildebrand  Bran- 
denburg, and   the   hedge-hog  of  Johannes   Knabensperg,  called 
Igler,  circa   1450. 

25.  Ingold  (C.  P.).     Les  Ex  Libris  Oratoriens,  illustrated. 

Paris,  C.  Poussielque,  15  Rue  Cassette,  8vo,  16  pp.,  1892. 

26.  The  Library.    Record  of  Bibliography.    Review  of  Fincham 

and  Brown's  Bibliography  of  Book-plates,  iv.,  262. 
London,  Simpkin,  Marshall,  Hamilton,  Kent  &  Co.,  8vo, 
1892. 

27.  The    Morning    Post.       Book-plates,    June    14  ;     Literary 

Notes,  August  25.  London,  1892. 

28.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  23. 

29.  Notes  and  Queries,  8th  Series.     Book-plates  :  Boyer,  i.,  7  ; 

royal,  i.,  126,  175  ;  Rabelais's,  ii.,  147;  armorial,  ii.,  188, 
274,490;  iii.,  97;  iv.,  168;  Mountaine  and  Burden, 
engravers  of,  i.,  247,  324  ;  book-lending  and  book-losing, 
i.,  322;  Ex  Libris  Society,  ii.,  500  ;  English  Book-plates, 
a  review,  iii.,  79  ;  portraits  as  book-plates,  iii.,  81,  129, 
210;  French  Book-plates,  a  review,  iii.,  160;  Book- 
plates, a  review,  iii.,  419.  London,  4to,  1892. 

30.  Ris-Paquot,  Dictionnaire  Encyclop6dique  des  Marques  et 

Monogrammes,  Chiffes,  Lettres,  Liitials,  Signs,  Figuratifs, 
etc.,  etc.,  contenant  1200  I\Larques. 
Paris,  R.  H.  Laurens,  6  Rue  de  Tournon,  2  vols.,  4to, 
1892. 

3 1 .  Archives  de  la  Soci^te  Frangaise  des  Collectionneurs  d'Hx 

Libris,  illustrated. 

Paris,  3  Faubourg  Saint-Jacques,  4to,  No.  i,  December, 
1893. 

32.  The  Athenaeum.     The  Laws    of   Book-borrowing   (G.  H. 

Powe!l).  London,  December  23,  1893. 


Additional  Bibliography.         415 

33.  The  Bookman.     Wm.  Cowper's    copy    of  Robert    Burns' 

Poems,  containing  his  book-plate,  illustrated,  September, 
October.  London,  folio,  1893. 

34.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  40. 

35.  El    Coleccionista    Argentina.      Ex    Libris,    January;     Ex 

Libris  y  Eliquetas  de  libreros,  March  ;  The  Journal  of 
the  Ex  Libris  Society,  April ;  Ex  Libris,  illustrated, 
June  ;   Ex  Libris,  illustrated,  September. 

Buenos  Ayres,  Svo,  1893. 

36.  Ex  Libris  Imaginaires  et  supposes  de  personnages  cel^bres 

anciens  et  modernes.      Plates. 

Paris,  L.  Joly,  Svo,  1893. 

37.  The  Globe.     The  Latest  Hobby. 

London,  March  29,  1893. 

38.  Hardy  (W.  J.),  F.S.A.     Book-plates.     Plates. 

London,  Kegan  I'aul,  Trench,  Triibner  &  Co.,8vo,  1893. 

39.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  32. 

40.  Kissel  (Clemens).     Symbolical  Book-plates.     Twenty-five 

Ex  Libris  designed  and  drawn  by. 

London,  H.  Grevel  &  Co.,  Svo  (1893),  1894. 

41.  Miscellanea  Genealogica  et  Heraldica  (Dr.  J.  J.  Howard, 

LL.D.,  F.S.A.) ,  Vol.  v.,  illustrated.  Examples  of 
Armorial  Book-plates :  Richard  Pritchett,  89  ;  John 
Bennett,  104  ;  (Phillipps,  1 89 2),  136  ;  (Thomas  Carter), 
166  ;  Sir  John  Collum  and  Dame  Susanna,  1760  ;  John 
CuUum,  Rev.  Sir  John  CuUum,  Richard  Merry,  Thomas 
Gery  Cullum,  Sir  Thomas  Gery  Cullum,  Mary  Hanson, 
1773;  Thomas  Gery  Cullum,  Rev.  Sir  Thomas  Gery 
Cullum,  ]\Lary  Anne  Cullum,  S.  A.  Milner  Gibson 
Cullum,  Gery  Milner  Gibson  Cullum,  Reginald  Gurney, 
Arethusa  Robertson,  Gery  Milner  Gibson  Cullum,  193. 
Irish  Book-plates:  Thomas  Ridgate  Mannsell,  Sisson 
Darling,  264  ;  Richard  Baldwin,  John  Butler,  281. 

London,  royal  Svo,  1893. 

42.  The  Portfolio.     A  description  of  the  Burlington  Fine  Arts 

(Jlub  Book-plate,  by  Mr.  C.  W.  Sherborn,  xxi. 

London,  Seeley  &  Co.,  folio,  1893. 


4i6  American  Book-plates. 

43.  The  Scottish  Review.     Book-plates,  xxi.,  315-329. 

London,  8vo,  April,  1S93. 

44.  The  Studio.     Designing  for  book-plates,  with  some  recent 

example  (Ci.[leeson]  W.[hite]),  illustrated,  24-28^ 
some  recent  book-plates,  with  seven  examples,  illustrated, 
148-150,  253.  London,  4to,  1893. 

45.  Teske  (Charles).     The    Book-plates    of  Ulrick,  Duke  of 

Mecklenburgh.      Plates. 

Berlin,  J.  A.  Stargardt,  4to  (1893),  1894. 

46.  Tit-Bits.     Who  has  the  finest  collection  of  book-plates  in 

this  country?  London,  October  21,  1893. 

47.  Vicars  (Arthur),  F.S.A.      Ulster  Kin^  of  Anns.     Book- 

plates (Ex  Libris),  Series  L,  Library  Interior  Book- 
plates; Series  IL,  Literary  Book-plates;  Series  IIL, 
Book-piles,  illustrated.  Plymouth,  4to,  1893. 

For  private  circulation.     Reprinted,  with  additions  and  corrections, 
from  I'he  yotirnal  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society. 

48.  Wheatley  (H.  B.).     Diary  of  Samuel  Pepys.     Pepys' book- 

plates, i.,  XV.,  Iv. 

London,  George  Bell  &  Sons,  8vo,  1S93. 

49.  The  Muses.     The  Study  of  Ex  Libris  and  Book-plate  col- 

lecting, illustrated,  17-20  (H.  Berkeley  Score,  F.R.G.S.). 
Ormskirk,  William  Leak  Hutton,  4to,  1894. 


Illustrations  of  book-plates,  apart  from  the  bibliography  of 
the  subject,  are  contained  in  the  following  articles  :  — 

50.  Lines  written  in  Jerpoint  Abbey. 

London,  8vo,  1S20. 

One  of  Sheffield  Grace's  book-plates. 

5 1 .  Benson  (Robert),  M.A.     Memoirs  of  the  Life  and  Writings 

of  the  Rev.  Arthur  Collier,  from  1704  to  1732. 

London,  Svo,  1837. 

Collier  book-plate. 

52.  See  American  Bibliography,  No.  11. 


Additional  Bibliography.         417 

53.  Fragmenta  Genealogica,  Vol.  I.,  58. 

Private  press  of  Frederic  Arthur  Crisp,  4to,  1889. 
Book-plate  of  "  William  Cowper,  Esqr.,  Clerk  of  the  Parliaments." 

54.  The  Bookman.  London,  May,  1892. 

Mr.  Gladstone's  book-plate. 

55.  See  American  Bibliography,  supplementary  list. 

56.  See  American  Bibliography,  supplementary  list. 

57.  Revue  Encyclopddique.     I.es    livres    en    vente    publique, 

14-1S.  Paris,  4to,  1892. 

Several  modern  French  book-plates. 

58.  The  Christian  Pictorial.     Cowper's  Retreat. 

London,  April  6,  1893. 
William  Cowper's  book-plate. 

59.  Dictionary  of  English  Book  Collectors. 

London,  Quaritch,  8vo,  Part  ii.,  1893. 
The  book-plate  of  the  Huth  Library. 

60.  Leslie  (G.  D.),  R.A.     Letters  to  Marco. 

London,  Macmillan,  8vo,  1893. 
Mr.  Leslie's  book-plate. 

61.  The  Sketch.     Mr.  W.  Herrics  Pollock. 

London,  folio,  July  7,  1893. 
Mr.  Pollock's  book-plate. 

62.  The  Sketch.     Mr.  Clement  K.  Shorter. 

London,  folio,  July  18,  1893. 
Mr.  C.  K.  Shorter's  book-plate. 

(iTf.  Visitation  of  England  and  Wales.  Edited  by  Joseph 
Jackson  Howard,  LL.D.  (Maltravers  Herald  Extraor- 
dinary), and  Frederic  Arthur  Crisp.     Vol.  I. 

London,  Mitchell  &  Hughes,  4to,  1893. 

64.  Warren  (John  Leicester),  Lord  de  Tabley,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Poems,  Dramatic  and  Lyrical. 

London,  Elkin  Mathews  &  Lane,  8vo,  1893. 
Mr.  J.  L.  Warren's  book-plate. 


2  E 


41 8  American  Book-plates. 


THE    FRENCH    BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

BEING   A   LIST   OF  THE    PRINCIPAL    WORKS    REFERRING   TO    FRENCH 
EX    LIBRIS. 

[Reprinted  by  kind  permission  of  Walter  Hamilton,  Esq.] 

A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates  (Ex  Libris).  By  the 
Hon.  J.  Leicester  Warren,  M.A.,  London. 

John  Pearson,  1880. 

Although  not  dealing  especially  with  French  ex  libris,  this  guide  is  an 
almost  indispensable  book  of  reference  to  every  collector  of  book- 
plates. 

L'Amateiur  d'Autographes,  April,  1872. 

This  contains  an  article  by  M.  Maurice  Tourneux,  on  the  colk-ction  of 
book-plates  in  the  possession  of  M.  Aglaiix  Bouvenne,  a  well-known 
artist  and  designer  of  book-plates. 

Armorial  du  Bibliophile.  Avec  ilkistrations  dansle  texte.     Par 
Joannis  Guigard. 
Paris,  Bachehn-Deflorenne,  2  vols.,  royal  8vo,  1S70-.1873. 

Contains  many  illustrations  of  super  libris,  which  are  frequently 
useful  in  assisting  to  discover  the  owners  of  anonymous  French 
armorial  book-plates.  (See  also  "Nouvel  Armorial  du  Biblio- 
phile.") 

Bibliophile  Francais.  Gazette  illustriJe  des  amateurs  de  livres, 
d'estampes,  et  de  hautes  curiosites. 

Paris,  7  vols.,  royal  8vo,  1S68-1873. 

This  work  incorporates  the  "  Armorial  du  Bibliophile  "  of  Joannis 
Guigard. 

Les  Bibliopliiles,  les  Collectionneurs,  et  les  Bibliotheques  des 
trois  ^vech^s,  155 2-1 790.  Par  Arthur  Benoit  (illus- 
trated). Paris,  royal  8vo,  1884. 

The  Book-plate  Collector's  Miscellany.  Edited  by  Mr.  W.  H. 
K.  Wright,  Borough  Librarian,  Plymouth.  Quarto,  illus- 
trated, 1 890-1 89 1.  Plymouth,  W.  H.  Luke. 

The  Bookworm.  May,  1892.  A  Hunt  for  Book-plates  in 
Paris.     l]y  Walter  Hamilton. 

London,  Elliot  Stock. 


The  French  Bibliography.        419 

Bulletin  du  Bouquiniste.     Paris,  No.  416,  April  15,  1875. 

Letter  from  the  Comte  de  Longperier-Grimoard  on  a  Super  Ubris 
of  Crozat,  December  I  and  15,  1876.  A  letter  from  the  Comte  de 
Longperier-Grimoard,  "  Une  Marque  inconnue." 

La  Curiosite  Universelle. 

A  small  weekly  newspaper  published  at  i  Rue  Rameau,  Paris.  This 
has  contained  several  articles  and  letters  on  the  topic  of  French 
ex  libris,  and  advocates  the  formation  of  an  Ex  Libris  Society  in 
Paris.  No.  228,  June  i,  1891,  A  propos  d'Ex  Libris;  No.  262, 
January  25,  1892,  illustrated;  No.  268,  March  7,  1892,  Article  on 
ex  libris;   No.  269,  March  14,  1892,  illustrated. 

Dictionnaire  des  devises  des  hommes  de  lettres,  imprimeurs, 
libraires,  bibliophiles,  etc.  Par  Van  de  Haeghen,  1876- 
1879. 

Etude  sur  les  Ex  Libris.  Par  le  Comte  de  Longperier-Gri- 
moard. Seulis,  8vo,  8  pp.,  1875. 

A  paper  read  before  the  Comite  Archeologique  de  Senlis,  December 
II,  1874. 

Les  Ex  Libris  Frangais,  depuis  leur  origine  jusqu'a  nos  jours. 
Par  A.  Poulet-Malassis.  Nouvelle  (Edition,  revue,  tres 
augmentee,  et  ornee  de  vingt-quatre  planches. 

Paris,  P.  Rouquette,  royal  8vo,  1875. 

Les  Ex  Libris,  et  les  Marques  de  Possession  du  Livre.  Par 
Henri  Bouchot,  du  Cabinet  des  Estampes.  Paris, 
Edouard  Rouveyre.  With  numerous  illustrations,  104 
pp.,  8vo,  1891. 

Only  750  printed. 

Les  Ex  Libris  dans  les  trois  Eveches,  Toul,  Metz,  Verdun, 
1552-1790.      Par  Arthur  Benoit.  Paris,  8vo,  1883. 

Les  Ex  Libris  Oratoriens.  Par  le  P.  Tngold.  Paris,  Libraire 
Charles  Poussielgue,  Rue  Cassette,  15,  1892. 

Crown  8vo,  16  pp.     With  thirteen  illustrations. 

Les  Ex  Libris  de  Schoepflin.     Par  Arthur  Benoit, 

Paris,  8vo,  1883. 
Reprinted,  with  illustrations,  from  "  Le  Bulletin  de  la  Societe  pour  la 
conservation    des    Monuments    historiques    d'Alsace.''       Second 
series. 


420  American  Book-plates. 

Les  Femmes  Bibliophiles  de  la  France.  Avec  43  Pl5.nches 
d'Armoiries.     Par  E.  Quentin-Bauchart. 

-Paris,  8vo,  1886. 

The  Journal  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society.     A.  and  C.  Black,  Soho 
Square,  London.     Quarto,  illustrated,  1891-1892.     (In 
progress.) 
A  monthly  journal  containing  numerous  articles  on  French  book- 
plates. 

Le  liivre  Moderne,  Revue  du  Monde  Litteraire. 

Paris,  Maison  Quantin,  1891. 

No.  19  (July,  1891)  contains  an  article  by  jNI.  Octave  U/.anne, 
entitled,  "  Remarques  sur  quelques  Ex  Libris  contemporains,"  with 
fac-similes  of  36  interesting  examples.  No.  24  (December,  1891) 
contains  an  article  in  continuation  of  the  above,  entitled,  "  Quelques 
Nouveaux  Ex  Libris,"  also  by  M.  Octave  Uzanne,  with  many 
illustrations. 

Des  Marques  et  devises  mises  a  leur  livres  par  iin  grand 
nombre  d' Amateurs.  Paris,  De  Rieffenberg,  1S74. 

Notice  sur  quelques  Graveurs  Naucedins,  du  XVIII  siecle. 
Par  M.  Beaupre.         Nancy,  Lucien  Wiener,  8vo,  1862. 

This  work  contains  descriptions  of  a  number  of  book-plates  engraved 
by  Dominique  Collin. 

Nouvelles  Etudes  siir  TUniversite  de  Pout-a-Mousson.     Par  M. 

Favier  (illustrated).  Nancy,  1880. 

Nouvel  Armorial  du  Bibliophile,  Guide  de  I'Amateur  des  Livres 

Armories.     Contenant  la  Reproduction  de  2500  Armoi- 

ries  et  riches  Reliures  armoiriees.     Par  Joannis  Guigard. 

Paris,  Emile  Roudeau,  2  vols.,  8vo.  1890. 

Petite  Revue  d'Ex  Libris  Alsaciens.  Par  Augusta  Stoeber. 
Avec  un  fac-simile  d'un  ancien  Ex  Libris  (C.  Wolf- 
hardt).  Millhouse,  Veuve  Bader,  i2mo,  1881. 

The  author  of  this  charming  little  pamj^hlet  died  a  few  years  ago. 

Le  Serpent  Embleme  des  Cliirurgiens,  et  des  M^decins.  Par 
Arthur  Benoit.  6  pp.  n.d. 

An  extract  from  "  La  Revue  Nouvelle  d' Alsace-Lorraine,"  which 
treats  of  serpents  shown  on  book-plates. 


CONCLUSION. 

HE  end  of  our  pleasant  task  is 
reached ;  and  it  only  remains 
to  thank  the  gentle  reader 
who  has  kindly  followed  us, 
and  to  re-assert  as  a  parting 
word,  that  this  work  does  not 
aspire  to  cover  every  point 
which  collectors  may  wish  to 
have  decided.  Its  modest 
purpose  will  be  served  if  any  reader  is  led  to  take 
an  interest  in  the  subject,  if  collectors  find  it  use- 
ful as  an  assistant  in  intelligent  collecting,  or  an 
instigation  to  further  and  more  careful  research. 

Undoubtedly,  there  lie  in  old  garrets,  book- 
cases, and  forgotten  cupboards,  dust-covered 
books,  in  which  some  fortunate  searcher  will  one 
day  discover  plates  as  yet  unknown.  It  is  hoped 
that  any  such  will  publish  their  success  for  the 
benefit  of  the  steadily  increasing  number  who 
find  something  interesting  in  these  memorials  of 
the  past,  and  who  take  pleasure  in  their  preserva- 
tion and  pride  in  their  possession. 


421 


INDEX. 


pAMS,   JOHN,    15, 
85. 
John    Ouincy,    85, 

86. 
Hannah,  18. 
Akui,  James,  117. 
Albany  Society  Library,  84. 
Aldrich,    Thomas    Bailey,    loi, 

343- 
Allan,  John,  7. 
Allardice,  S.,  117. 
Allegorical  book-plates,  57. 
Allen,  Charles  Dexter,  his  col- 
lection, 383. 
Mrs.  Frances  Louise,  375. 
Frances  Louise   and    Charles 

Dexter,  365. 
John,  46. 
American    Academy   Arts    and 

Sciences,  126,  163. 
American  Antiquarian   Society, 

78. 
American  collections,  377. 
American  collectors,  377,  385. 
American   members    Ex    Libris 

Society  of  London,  384. 
Anderson,    Alexander,    79-117, 

120. 
Andrew,  John,  388. 
Andrews,  Henry,  57,  59. 
Annin  and  Smith,  122. 
Anthony,  Henry  B.,  341. 
Apprentices'  Library,  121. 
Apthorp,  79. 

Armorial  book-plates,  35. 
Arnold  Arboretum,  72,  jt,. 


Asay,  E.  G.,  363. 

Assheton,  William,  9. 

Atkinson,  Theodore,  106. 

Atlee,  8. 

Avery  Architectural  Library,  72. 

Avery,  Samuel  Putnam,  370. 

Avril,  Paul,  371. 

Baer,  Frank  House,  341. 
Baillie,  W.  E.,  350. 
Baldwin,  Simeon,  18. 
Bancker,  Abraham,  143. 
Bancroft,  George,  31  ;  his  motto, 

32- 
Barker,  Mrs.  E.  H.  L.,  373  ;  her 

collection,  382. 
Barrett,  Lawrence,  102. 
Bates,  Albert  C,  349,  350. 
Bates,  Arlo,  loi. 
Baxter,     James     Phinney,    347, 

348. 
Bayliss,  Mary,  376. 
Belcher,  Jonathan,  9. 

William,  171. 
Benjamin,  Marcus,  368,  369. 
Betton,  Thomas  Forrest,  18. 
Bibliography,  American,  389. 
English,  396. 
French,  418. 
Bierstadt,  E.  H.,  his  collection, 

382,  90. 
Blackley,  Absalom,  172,  173. 
Blackwell,  Henry,  33,  360 ;    his 

collection,  383. 
Blanc,  William,  9. 
Bloomfield,  154. 


423 


424 


Amei'ican  Book-plates. 


Book-plates  : 
metals  used,  2. 

used  first   in    Southern   colo- 
nies, 3. 
literary,  6. 
addresses  on,  7,  8. 
profession  on,  9,  10. 
essentials,  16. 
dated,  18. 
phrases  on,  18. 
armorial,  35. 
purpose  of,  35. 
first,  35. 

styles  named,  yj. 
Early  English,  described,  y] . 
Jacobean,  described,  41. 
Chippendale,  described,  47. 
Ribbon  andWreath,  described, 

54- 

Pictorial.  57. 

Allegorical,  57. 

Portrait,  78. 

of  special  interest,  79. 

reasons  for  grades   of  value, 
79,  82.  85. 

destruction  of  early,  80,  81. 

signed,  82. 

dated,  82. 

of  presidents  of  U.S.,  85. 

of  royal  officers,  86. 

of  loyalists,  88. 

of  titled  Americans,  88. 

of  early  authors,  89. 

of  early  physicians.  89. 

of  early  statesmen,  89. 

of  early  clergymen,  89. 

of  early  printers.  89. 

of  Revolutionary  soldiers,  90. 

of  signers  of  the  Declaration, 
90. 

heraldry  on  early,  113. 
Booth,  Edwin,  102. 
Boston  Public  Library,  tj. 
Bowen,  Abel,  67,  122. 
Boyd,  John,  123. 
Brainerd,  Miss  Helen  E.,  382. 
Brewster,  Miss  Jessie,  373. 


British,  soldiers  take  books  from 

Columbia  College,  86. 
Brooks,  Henry  M.,  351. 
Brothers  in  Unity.  67,  77. 
Brown,  7. 

Browne,  Peter  A.,  118. 
Bryant.  Hubbard  Winslow,  353. 
Buck,  John  H.,  341. 
Burnet.  John,  84. 
Burrows,  Charles  W.,  341. 

Cabell,  9. 

Callender,  Joseph,  56,  123. 
Campbell,  John,  19. 
Canadian  plates. : 

LIST  NUMBER. 

Kingston :      St.  John 

College,  459 

Livius,  505 

Stewart,  826 

Uniacke,  873 

Waterhouse,  914 

Carmichael,   Hon.  William,  39, 
181. 

Castle,  Harry  Allen,  342. 

Chambers,  John.  136. 

Chandler,  Gardiner,  146. 
John,  Jr.,  53,  108. 

Chase,  Samuel,  79. 

Childs,  Cephas  G.,  127. 

George  W.,  his  motto,  32  ;  his 
plate,  98. 

Chippendale  plates  described.  47. 

Chippendale  plates  by  Hurd,  105. 
by  Dawkins.  131. 

Clap,  John,  18. 

Clark,  Clarence  H.,  371. 

Clergymen's  plates,  89. 

Cleveland,  Stephen.  79,  80. 

Clinton,  De  Witt,  illus..  55. 

Coffin,  Mrs.  Julia  Dexter,  374. 

Cole,  J.  N.  Candee,  his  motto, 
24. 

Colesworthy.  D.  C,  his  severe 
motto,  21. 

Collectors    of    book-plates,    de- 
fence of.  II. 

College  book-plates,  57,  67. 


Index. 


425 


Columbia  College  Library,  81. 
Congressional  Library,  67. 
Connecticut  Historical  Society, 

75-  . 
Connecticut  plates : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

AIsop,  15 

Belcher,  73 

Bull,  118 

Chester,  156 

Conn.  Theoi.  Inst.,  178,  179 
East  Windsor  Lit.  Assn.,  246 
Farmington  Library, 

266,  267,  268 
Goodwin,  314 

Guilford  Library,  335 

Guilford  Union  Library,  336 
Hanchett,  346 

Hartford  Library  Co.,  350 
Ingersoll,  404 

Jarvis,  423 

Johnson,  434-5 

Kmg,  457 

Knight,  466 

Lord,  516 

Musgrave,  603 

Pease,  651-2 

Pierpont,  682 

Reed,  723 

Robbins,  Philemon,  731 

Robbins,  Thomas,  732 

Sargeant,  758 

Smith,  Samuel,  799 

Stowe,  833 

Waldo,  901 

Wethersfield  Library,  923 
Wetmore,  924 

Williams,  938-9 

Wolcott,  953 

Woodljridge,  955 

Yale  College :  Brothers 

in  Unity,  964-5-6 

Yale     College :      Lino- 

nian  Society,  967-8-9 

Yale    College :     Moral 

Library,  970 

Yale    College :     Philo- 

technian  Library,  971 

Cooper,  Myles,  49. 
Corning,  John  Herbert,  354. 
Count  Rumford,  158. 
Coutenay,     William     Ashmead, 
122,,  356. 


Cowan,  Thomas  C,  his  motto, 

126. 
Craven,  86. 
Curtis,  T.  W.,  1 8. 
Curry,    George     (D.    D.),    his 

motto,   33. 
Cushman,  Charlotte,  y]'}^. 

Dated  plates,  82. 
Uawkins,  Henry,  6,  53,  127. 
Dearborn.  Nathaniel,  132. 
Deats,    H.    E.,    150,    365;     his 

collection,  381. 
De  Blois,  Lewis,  79,  109. 
Defence  of  book-plate  collecting, 

II. 
De  Forest,  George  B.,  371. 
Delaware  plates : 


LIST   NUMBER 

Bayard, 

64 

Fisher, 

273 

Denham,  Edward,  356. 
Dering,  Thomas,  79,  84,  106. 
Dickinson,  David,  18. 
Dinwiddle,  Robert,  53. 
Dix,      Edward      Spencer,      his 

motto.  33. 
Dix,  Rev.  Morgan.  346. 
Dodge,  Pickering,  his  collection, 

Doolittle,  Amos,  132. 
Drayton,  9. 

Dubbs,  Joseph  Henry,  342,  345. 
Du  Bois.  Henri  Pene,  his  theory 

about  book-plates,  358. 
Dudley,  Joseph,  38. 
Duer,  William,  195,  322. 
Duhme,    Mrs.    Ophelia   Fowler, 

375-  382. 
Dumaresque,  53. 
Dummer,  Jer.,  39. 
Durand,  John,  47. 

Early  authors'  plates,  89. 
Earliest    dated    plates    (Ameri- 
can), 82. 


426 


American  Book-plates. 


Earliest  plate  by  an  American 
engraver,  which  is  both 
dated  and  signed,  84. 

Early  English  style  described,  37. 

Edwards,  George  Wharton,  351. 

Eggleston,  Edward,  102. 

Elam,  Samuel,  8,  13. 

Elliston,  Comptroller,  8,  86. 

Ellwanger,  George  H.,  340,  363. 

Engravers,  celebrated,  14. 

Eno,  Dr.  H.  C,  372  ;  his  collec- 
tion, 382. 

Ernst,  Harold  Clarence,  his 
motto,  32. 

Eustace,  Colonel,  8,  199. 

Evarts,  Jeremiah,  386. 

Ewing,  200,  201. 

Ex  Libris  Societies. 
France,  388. 
Germany,  387. 
London,  387. 

Fairman.  Gideon,  134. 
Farmington,  Library  of,  7, 62, 63, 

65. 
Field,  Eugene,  35,  loi. 
First  book-plate  in  America,  i . 
Fitz,  Miss  Louise,  382. 
Flint,  Mrs.  Alonzo,  373. 
Fogg,  Dr.  J.  S.  H.,  342. 
Forbes,  Eli,  135. 
Francis,  Samuel  W.,  his  motto, 

26. 
Franklin,  John,  79,  156. 
Fraunces,  Andrew  G.,  205. 
French,  Edwin  Davis,  376. 
Furnass,  John  Mason,  134. 

Gallaudet,  Edward,  136. 

Elisha,  136. 

Mrs.  E.  M.,  382. 
Garden,  Francis,  159. 
Gardiner,  John,  9. 
Garrett,  Edmund  H.,  138,  376. 
Georgia  plates : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

Belcher,  74 

Wright,  959 


Gibbs,  John  Walters,  9. 
Gilpin.  Henry  D.,  127. 
Godwin,  Abraham,  137. 
Goelet,  John,  208,  209. 
Goodwin,  George,  6,  132. 
Graeme,  Elizabeth,  97. 
Greenleaf,  Daniel,  25. 
Greene,  Benjamin,  84. 
Grolier  Club,  73,/>7>';///j'. 

Haber,  Louis  J.,  343.  349. 

Hale,    Robert,    of    Beverly,    8, 
107. 

Hapgood,  Melvin  H.,  344. 

Hark,  J.  Max,  342. 

Harison,  Richard,  150,  214,  215. 

Harris,  S.,  137. 

Harrison,  Charles  P.,  138. 

Hart,  Gerald  E.,  350. 

Hartman.  J.  Hiestand,  368. 

Harvard  College.  67,  112. 

Hasty  Pudding  Society,  67,  68. 

Hayden,  Martin,  362. 

Hays,  Barrack,  218,  219. 

Heraldry  on  early  plates.  113. 
on  American  plates,  346. 

Hewins,  Eben  Newell,  his  collec- 
tion, 380. 

Hicks,  Whitehead,  130. 

Hill,  Samuel,  78,  138. 

Hitchcock,  E.  A.,  368. 

Holland,  J.  G.,  99. 

HoUingsworth,  A.  L.,  29,  355. 

Holloway,  Edward  Stratton,  362. 

Holmes,    Oliver    Wendell,    32, 
98. 

Holt,  Thomas,  18. 

Holyoke,  Edward  Augustus,  79, 
105. 

Hone,  Philip,  16. 

Hooper,  59. 

Hopson,  W.  F.,  104,  370,  376. 

Houx,  J.  W.,  his  motto,  24. 

Howland,  361. 

Hoyt,  F.  W.,  366. 

Huntington,  Rev.  Wm.  R.,  356. 

Hurd,  Jacob,  158. 


Index. 


427 


Hurd,  Nathaniel,  6,  38,  44,  46, 

52,  67,  79,  104. 
Hutton,  Laurence,  loi,  102. 

Ingersoll,  Jared,  8. 

Jacobean  plates  described,  41. 
Jacobean  plates  by  Hurd,  109. 
Jackson,  Jonathan,  in. 
Jackson,  W.,  55. 
Jarvis,  Samuel  Farmar,  226,  227. 
Jauncey,  William,  226,  229. 
Jayne,  D.  W.,  his  motto,  21. 
JeiTries,  Dr.  John,  89. 
Jilson,  Charles  F.,  357. 
Jocelyn,  S.  S.,  138. 
Johnson,  Rossiter,  103. 
Johnson,  Thomas,  6,  138. 
Johnston,   Thomas    (engraver), 

139- 
Johnston,    Thomas  (plate),  56, 

230,  231. 
Jones,  Emanuel,  18. 
Jones,  Gabriel,  36. 

Kearney,  Francis,  139. 
Keith,  Sir  William,  86. 
i     Kempe,  John  Tabor,  86. 
Kentucky  plates  : 

LIST    NUMBER. 

Raphael,  718-9 

King,  Clifford  Julius,  352. 

Kinloch,  Francis,  79. 

Kip,  59. 

Kissam,  Benjamin,  129,  51. 

Kunze,  Johan  Christopher,  18. 

Labels,  16,  18,  19. 
Ladies'  plates : 

Adams,  Hannah,  18. 

Allen,  Frances  L.,  375. 

Barker,  Mrs..E.  H.  L.,  373. 

Bayliss,  Mary,  376. 

Brainerd,  Helen  E.,  382. 

Brewster,  Jessie,  373. 

Coffin,  Julia  S.,  374. 

Cushman,  Charlotte,  -^^^-i). 


Duhme.  Ophelia  F.,  375. 

Flint,  Mrs.  Alonzo,  373. 

Graeme,  Elizabeth,  97. 

Iselin,  Helen,  225. 

Miller,  Margaret  M.,  375. 

Shelton,  Ada  Stewart,  375. 
Lady  collectors,  382. 
Lambert,  John,  his  motto,  24. 
Lawrence,    Richard    Hoe,    362, 

368. 
Lefferts,  Marshall  C,  352,  353. 
Leighton,  George  E.,  353. 
Lemperly,  Paul,  357,  359,  421. 
Lenthall,  John,  79,  153. 
Lenox,  8. 
Lewis,  7. 
Lewis,  W.,  18. 

Libbie,  Fred  J.,  368;  his  collec- 
tion, 381. 
Library  book-plates,  57. 
Library  of  Congress,  67. 
Lichtenstein,    Richard    C,     his 
plate,   346;    illus.    160;    his 
coll.,  381  ;  his  opinion  of  the 
George   Washington   plate, 

9!- 

Linonian  Library,  67,  69,  70. 
Livingston,  Edward,  237,  238. 
Livius,  88. 

Lodge,  Abraham,  240. 
Longfellow,      Henry     W.,      his 

motto,  30. 
Lord,  William,  5. 
Loyalists  who  had  book-plates, 

'  88. 
Lowell,  John,  115. 
Ludwell,  8. 

Macbeth,     George      Alexander, 

79'  352- 
Maine  Historical  Society,  75. 
Maine  plates  : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

Gardiner,  297 

Morrison,  597 

Vauglian,  Benjamin,  889 

Vaughan,  Samuel,  Jr.,  892 

Vaughan,  William,  893 


428 


American  Book-plates. 


.Malvians,  312.  339. 
Manigault,  Peter,  52. 
Mann,  John  Preston,  59,  245. 
Mann,  Timothy,  27. 
Martin,  Luther,  155. 
Marvin,  Samuel  Wesley,  366. 
Maryland  plates  : 


LLST   NUMBER 

Baltimore  Liby. 

Co. 

50 

Bonaparte, 

89 

Bozman, 

lOI 

Calvert, 

133 

Carmichael, 

135 

Carroll, 

138 

Chalmers, 

144 

Chase, 

150 

Duvall, 

243 

Fornian, 

280 

Georgetown  College, 

299,  300 

Guinaud, 

337 

Johnston, 

436 

Kerr, 

452 

Key, 

453 

McTavish, 

544 

Maxcy, 

569 

Read, 

722 

Roberts, 

733 

Sprigg. 

816 

Stewart, 

824 

'layloe, 

, 

84s 

Massachusetts    Historical    Soci- 
ety, 78. 
Massachusetts  plates : 


LIST   NUMBER. 


Adatiis,  J., 
Adams.  J.  Q., 
Agar, 
Allen, 

American  Academy, 
Andover  'I'heol.  Inst 
Andrew, 
Andrews, 
Aplhorp, 
Atkinson, 
Auchmuty, 
Baldwin, 
Barren, 
Barroll, 
Beck, 
Belcher, 
Blake, 

Boston  Architectural 
Library, 


3 

6,7 
8 

13 
17 
19 


22,  23,  24 
26,  27,  28,  29 

38,39 
42 

46,47 


59 

68 

71,72 

82 

983 


LIST   NUMBER 

Boston  Shakespeare  Cir- 
culating Library,  93 
Boston  Social  Law  I^ibr'y,  94 
Bowdoin,  97 
Bowdoin  College,  98 
Boylston  Med.  Libr'y,  99,    100 


Brazer, 

103 

Brown, 

112 

Cabot, 

126 

Callender, 

132 

Cary,  Alpheus, 

140 

Cary,  Thomas, 

142 

Chandler,  Gardiner, 

147 

Chandler,  John,  Junr.,       148 

Chandler,  Rufus, 

149 

Chauncey,            151, 

152.  153 

Ciiild,  Isaac, 

158,  159 

Child,  Thomas, 

160 

Cleveland, 

170 

Coffin, 

173 

Coffin,  Hector, 

174 

Coffin,  John, 

175 

Cooley, 

182 

Courtenay, 

184 

Cranch, 

187 

Curwen, 

192 

Gushing, 

193 

Dana,  E.  T., 

200 

Dana,  Francis, 

201 

Dana,  R.  H., 

202 

Danforth, 

203 

Dartmouth  College, 

204 

Dartmouth  College, 

Social  Friends, 

205 

De  Blois,  L., 

212 

Dedham  :    Scripture 

Studv  Society, 

214 

Dering,  X.H., 

218 

Dering,  T., 

219,  220 

Dexter, 

222 

Dill, 

223 

Dolbeare, 

225 

Duane, 

232 

Dudley, 

233 

Dumaresque, 

236 

Dummer, 

237 

Emerson, 

256 

Erving, 

258,  259 

Evarts, 

261 

Everett, 

263 

Forbes, 

279 

Foster, 

281 

Foster,  I, 

282 

Fownes, 

284 

Foxcroft, 

285 

Francis, 

286 

Index. 


429 


LIST 

NUMBER. 

LIST   NUMBER 

Franklin, 

287 

Osborne, 

628 

French, 

291 

Otis,  Harrison  Gray, 

629 

Gardiner, 

296 

Otis,  James, 

630 

Gray, 

322 

Parker,  B., 

639 

Green,  F., 

323 

Parker,  James, 

641 

Green,  Garrett, 

324 

Parker,  "Samuel, 

642 

Green,  T.,  Jr., 

32_=; 

Parkman, 

643 

Greene,  B.,                   326,  327 

Parsons, 

644 

Greene,  D., 

329 

Peirson, 

649 

Greene,  T.,  Jr., 

330 

Pepperell, 

664 

Greenleaf, 

331 

Perkins, 

665 

Greenough, 

332 

Phillips, 

673 

Hale, 

339 

Phillips  Academy,  An- 

Hallowell, 

343 

dover. 

674 

Harris, 

347 

Phillips  Academy,  Ex- 

Harvard Coll.  Libr'y,     3=;i-'; 

eter, 

675 

Harvard  College  Hasty 

Pickering, 

679 

Pudding  Society, 

356 

Pierpont, 

681 

Harvard   College    Por- 

Poor, 

687 

cellean  Libr'y,  357,  358,  359 

Prescott,  William, 

696 

Haverhill  Library, 

987 

Prescott,  William  H., 

697 

Heath, 

371 

Price, 

700 

Henderson, 

373 

Prince, 

704 

Hill, 

380 

Putnam, 

711 

Hoar, 

381 

Quincy, 

712 

Holyoke,  E.  A., 

38s 

Rivoire, 

730 

Holyoke, 

386 

Royall, 

743 

Humphrey, 

396 

Russell, 

747 

Hurd, 

401 

Sargent,  Daniel,  Junr., 

759 

Jackson,  Jas., 

418 

Sargent,  Epes, 

760 

Jackson,  Jon., 

419 

Sargent,  Winthrop, 

761 

Jeffries,                             426-7 

Scotton,  John, 

768 

Jenkins, 

429 

Sears, 

769 

Johnson,  Thomas, 

432 

Secombe, 

771 

Jones, 

441 

Selfridge, 

773 

Lisle,  H.  M., 

490 

Sheppard, 

777 

Livermore, 

491 

Simpson, 

783 

Lodge, 

510 

Smith,  Hezekiah, 

790 

Loring, 

517 

Smith,  William, 

803 

Lowell,  John, 

520 

Spooner, 

813 

Lowell,  John,  Jr.,            5 

21-2 

Stearns, 

820 

Lowell,  John  Aniory, 

523 

Sumner,  Thomas  W., 

839 

Mann, 

550 

Sumner,  W.  H., 

840 

Marston, 

556 

Swan, 

842 

Mason, 

560 

Swett, 

843 

Mass.  General  Court, 

561 

Thomas, 

853 

Mass.  Historical  Society 

562 

Thorndike, 

858 

Mass.  Medical  Society, 

563 

Tracy, 

863 

Mass.  Normal  School, 

564 

Tufts, 

868 

Minot,                              579-80 

Tuttle, 

869 

Murray, 

60Q 

Tyler,  Andrew, 

870 

Newburyport  Athenaeum 

,606 

Tyler,  Joseph, 

871 

Newell. 

607 

Tyng, 

872 

Newton, 

609 

Vassall, 

888 

Oliver,  Andrew, 

625 

Vaughan, 

891 

Oliver,  Francis  J., 

991 

Vose,  Benjamin, 

899 

430 


Ame7'ican  Book-plates. 


LIST   NUMBER. 

Vose,  Solomon,  900 

Warren,  John  C.,  908 

Warren,  j.  Mason,  909 

Webster.  918 

Wetmore,  926 

Wheelwright,  929 

Williams,  934 

Williams,  942 

W^illiams,  John,  937 

Williams,  John,  940 

Williams,  John  C,  941 

Willis,  944 

Wilson,  David,  945 

Wilson,  James,  946 

Winthrop,  William,  949 

Winthrop,  John,  950 
Worcester    Circulating 

Library,  956 

Young,  974 

Matthews,  Brander,  99. 
Mauran,    James    Eddy,    16,    98; 

his  collection,  378. 
Maverick,  Peter,  142. 

Peter  Rushton,  6,  56,  140. 
McGinley,  Mary,  19. 
McIIvaine.  Bloomfield,  57,  157. 
McKee,  Thomas  J.,  357. 
McMurtrie,  59. 
Member  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society, 

Middleton.  Peter,  10. 
Miller,  Margaret  M.,  375. 
Minot,  40. 

Moat,  Horatio  Shepherd,  56. 
Moral  Library,  6,  7. 
Morgan,  Appleton,  341. 
Morgan,  Henry  A.,  356. 
Mottoes,  use  of,  16,  17. 

different  kinds,  21. 

languages  used  on,  21. 

against  book-borro\ving,2 1-27. 

from  the  Bible,  21,  22. 

school-boy,  23. 

care  of  books,  25-27. 

poetical,  24-26,  28. 

generous,  27. 

in  praise  of  books  and  reading, 
28. 

quotations  used,  28. 


Mounting  plates,  ways  of,  382. 
Murray,  David,  353. 
John,  Rev.,  252,  253. 

Name-labels.  16,  18,  19. 

New  England  book-plates,  4,  87. 

New  Hampshire  plates : 


LIST   NUMBER 

Ladd, 

470 

Livius, 

504 

Sullivan, 

838 

Wentworth, 

922 

Young, 

975 

V  Jersey  plates : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

Antil!, 

25 

Bloomfield, 

87 

Brearly, 

104 

Edgar, 

986 

Kemble, 

450 

Ogden, 

621 

Read, 

721 

Stockton, 

830 

Trenchard, 

864 

Wallace, 

904 

New  London  Public  Library,  73. 
New  York  plates : 

LIST  NUMBER. 

Anonymous       (French 

style),  I 

Agnew,  James,  9 

Albany  Society  Library,  11 

Allan,  John,  12 

Anderson,              '  18 

Ball,  48 

Bancker,  51 

Bay,  63 

Bed  low,  69 

Betts.  77 

Blackley,  81 

Booth,  91 

Brasher,  102 

Bridgen,  105 

Brooks,  108 

Brown,  110 

Bruen,  115 

Burnet,                           120,  121 

Cadena,                 127,  128,  129 

Chambers,  146 

Champion,  984 

Clarke,  Alfred,  164 

Clarke,  Geo.,  165 

Clarkson,  David,  167 


Index. 


431 


LIST   NUMBER. 

Clarkson,  M.,  168 

Clinton,  171 

Cock,  172 

Colden,  176 
Columbia  College  Libr'y,  177 

Connolly,  180 

Constable,  181 

Cooper,  183 

Cushman,  194 

Cutting,  198 

Cuyler,  199 

Da  Peyster,  216 

De  Witt,  221 

Duer,  W.  A.,  234 

Duer,  W.,  235 

Duncan,  j.  H.,  238 

Duncan,  R.  H.,  239 

Dunning,  C.  E.,  240 

Dunning,  C.  S.,  241 

Durand,  242 

Edwards,  248 

Ellery,  252 

Elliott,  253 
Elliston,  254,  255 
Erasmus  Hall  Library,      256 

Eustace,  260 

Everdell,  262 

Fish,  272 

Foot,  276 

Fraunces,  289 

Gallaudet,  293 
Gardiner      (Gardiner's 

Island),  294 
Gardiner,  John  (Gardi- 
ner's Island),  295 
Gibs,  306 
Giles,  308 
Goelet,  313 
Gourgas,  316 
Gracie,  317 
Hamersley,  "  344 
Harison,  348 
Harrison,  349 
Hawks,  360 
Herbert,  374 
Hicks,  Elias,  376,  377 
Hicks,  Whitehead,  378 
Hoffman,  382 
Horsmanden,  394 
Hunter,  400 
Inglis,  406 
Iselin,  416 
Jauncey,  424 

Jay,  425 

Johnson  (Sir  Wm.  ?),      430 

Johnson,  J.  I.,  431 


LIST   NUMBER. 

Johnston,  John,  437 

Johnston,  Thomas,  439 

Jones,  S.,  442 

Jones,  W.  G.,  443 
[udah,  444-5 
Keese,  J.,                          446-7 

Kempe,  451 

King,  456 

Kip,  I.  L.,  461 
Kip,  L.,                            462-3 

Kissam,  465 

Lenox,  483 

Lewis,  Morgan,  486 

Livingston,  Brockholst,  492 

Livingston,  Edward,  493 

Livingston,  John  R.,  494 

Livingston,  Maturin,  495 

Livingston,  Mortimer,  496 

Livingston,  Peter  R.,  497 

Livingston,  Robert  L.,  498 
Livingston,  Robert  R., 

499-500 

Livingston,  Walter,  501 

Livingston,  Wm.,  502 

Livingston,  Wm.  Smith,  503 
Lloyd,                                507-8 

de  Lotbiniere,  518 

Low,  519 

Ludlow,  Cary,  524 

Ludlow,  Charles,  A.M.,  525 
Ludlow,    Gabriel    Ver- 

plank,  526 

Ludlow,  Gab.  Wm.,  527 

Ludlow,  George,  528 

Ludlow,  John  Cooke,  529 

McCoun,  534 

McLean,  541 

Malvians,  989 

Masterlon,  565 

Ma.xwell,  570 

Meredith,  573 

Middleton,  575 

Moat,  584 

Moore,  Lambert,  585 

Moore,  Nath'l  F.,  586 

Moore,  Samuel  W.,  587 

Morris,  Gnuverneur,  591 

Morris,  James,  593 

Murray,  601 
New  York  City: 

Apprentices'  Library,  610 

College  of  Pharmacy,  6ii 
College  of  Phys.  and 

Sur.,  612 

Society  Library,  613-4-5 

Typographical  Soc,  616 


432 


American  Book-plates. 


LIST   NUMBER. 


Ogden, 

Orphan  Asylum, 

Pantcn,  Francis, 

Panton,  Francis,  Jr., 

Pasley, 

Paulding,  J.  K., 

Paulding,  W., 

Philipse, 

Pierce, 

Pintard, 

Popham, 

Pride, 

Provoost,  John, 

Provoost,  Samuel, 

Pruvn, 

Ray, 

Rickets, 

Robinson, 

Roome,  Jacob, 

Roome,  John  L.  C, 

Rosseau, 

Russell, 

Rutgers, 

Rutherford, 

St.  George's  Church, 

Schuyler,  Philip, 

Schuyler,  Samuel, 

Sedgwick, 

Seton, 

Silvester, 

Sitgreaves, 

Smith,  G.  A., 

Smith,  James  Scott, 

Smith,  John  Adams, 

Smith,  Thomas,  Junr., 

Smith,  Thomas  J., 

Smith,  William, 

Smith,  William,  A.M., 

Smith,  William  P., 

Spry, 

Stanford, 

Stephens, 

Stewart, 

Stone, 

Stringer, 

Sturges, 

Stuyvesant, 

Sword, 

Ten  Broeck, 

Thompson, 

Tillotson, 

Tomlinson, 

Tripp, 

Van  Berckel, 

Van  Buren, 

Van  Cortlandt, 


620 
626 
636 

637 
646 
647 
648 
671 
680 

685-6 
688 
701 
707 

708-9 
710 
720 
728 
737 
739 
740 

741 
746 
748 
749 
752-3 
762 

763 
772 

775 
782 

785 
791 
792 

794 
801 
802 
804 
805 
808 
817 
818 
821 
825 
831 
834 
836 

837 
844 

851 
85s 
861 
862 
865 
878 
879 


LIST 

Van  Ness, 

Van  Rensselaer.  Jer., 

Van  Rensslaer,  K.  K., 

Van  Renssilaer,  P., 

Van  Renf,5elaer,  Stephen, 

Van  Wyck, 

Varick, 

Wall, 

Watkins, 

Watts, 

Wetmore, 

Whitebread, 

Wilkes, 

Williams, 

Wisner, 

Wynkoop,  Augustus, 

Wynkoop,  C.  C., 

Wynkoop,  Peter, 

Yates,  Christopher  C, 

Yates,  Peter  W., 


882 


886 
887 

903 
916 
917 
925 
931 
933 
935 
952 
960 
961 
962 
972 
973 


New  York  State  Agricultuial  So- 
ciety, 70. 

New  York  Society  Library,  60, 
61,  62,  74. 

New  York  plates,  87. 

Newel],  Timothy,  3. 

Nomenclature,  t^"]. 

North  Carolina  plates : 


Edwards, 
Hooper, 
Innes, 
Iredell, 
Spaight, 
University 
Carolina, 


of     North 


LIST  NUMBER, 
249 
388 
414 
415 
812 

619 


Norton,  Charles  Eliot,  346. 

Oliver,  Andrew,  50. 
Orphan  Asylum,  70. 
Otis,  Harrison  Gray,  11. 

Page,  Francis,  9,  41,  82. 
Paine,  Nathaniel,  352  ;  his  collec- 
tion. 383. 
Panton,  Francis,  258,  259. 
Parker,  James,  57,  58. 
Parker,  Samuel,  57,  260. 
Parmelee,  George  L.,  355. 


Index. 


433 


Pelton,  Oliver,  145. 

Penn,  Edmund,  7. 

Penn,  William,  his  motto,  30,  82, 

86,  263. 
Pennington,  Edward,  34,  59. 
Pennsylvania  Historical  Society, 

75- 
Pennsylvania  plates  : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

Abercrombie,  James,  2 

Aitkin,  Robert,  10 

Allison,  Joseph  J.  14 

Assheton,  35-37 

Atlee,  40 
Bancker,               52,  53,  54,  55 

Bartram,  61 

Bayard,  65 

Beatty,                       .  67 

Bond,  90 

Boudinot,  96 

Brown,  109 

Browne,  113 

Chambers,  145 

Chauncey,  154 

Chawney,  155 

Child,  157 

Day,  209 

Denny,  215 

Ewing,  264 

Gallitin,  292 
Gilpin,                          310-31 1 

Graeme,  318 

Graham,  319 

Griggs,  334 

Gurney,  338 

Hall,  340 

Hamilton,  345 

Herman,  375 

Hopkinson,  F.,  390 

Hopkinson,  J.,  391 

Inglis,  408 

Ingraham,  409 
Ingraham,  E.  D.,          410-13 

Keith,  449 

Kingston,  458 

Kunze,  988 

Lardner,  472 

Lenox,  482 

Lewis,  J.  S.,  484 

Lewis,  M.,  485 

Logan,  Charles,  512 

Logan,  James,  513 

Logan,  William,  514 

Loganian  Library,  515 

McFarlan,  536 

2  F 


LIST   NUMBER. 

542-3 

567 

577 
5S2 
589 
592 
617 
618 
627 

655 
656 

657 
658 


McMurtrie, 

Matthews, 

Miller, 

Mitchell, 

Morgan, 

Morris,  J., 

Norris,  Geo.  W., 

Norris,  Isaac, 

Osborne, 

Penn,  Thomas, 

Penn,  William, 

Penn  (anonymous), 

Pennington, 

Pennington,  Edward,   659-60 

Pennington,  T.  H.,  661 

Pennsylvania  Historical 

Society,  662-3 

Philadelphia : 
Apprentices  Library 

Co.,  667-8 

Carpenters  Company,    669 
Library  Company,  670 

Poulson,  689 

Powel,  Samuel,  690 

Powell,  Hare  Samuel,        691 
Powell,  John  H.,  692 

Priestley,  702 

Proctor,  706 

Riddle's  Circulating  Li- 
brary, 729 
Rush,  745 
St.  Clair,  751 
Shippen,  Edward,  779 
Shippen,  Robert,  780 
Smith,  795 
Stille,  827 
Taylor,  848 
Thomas,  852 
Vaux,  894 
Warren,  911 
Weiberg,  994 
Wiseman,  951 
Wood,  954 

Philadelphia  plates,  88. 
Philipse,  Frederick,  42. 
Phoenix  Society,  76. 
Physicians'  plates,  89. 
Pictorial  book-plates,  57. 
Pike,  Nicolas,  17. 
Pinfold,  Charles,  9. 
Pintard,  John,  79,  120. 
Plates  by  Dawkins,  131. 
Plates  of  special  interest,  79. 


434 


American  Book-plates. 


Poole,  Lucius,  362. 
Porcellian  Club,  67. 
Portrait  plates.  78. 
Potter,  William  W.,  17. 
Power,  James,  269,  270. 
Prescott,  William,  32. 
Presidents  of  U.    S.  who   have 

book-plates,  85. 
Prichard's    Circulating    Library, 

71- 

Prince,  Thomas,  84. 

Printed  labels,  16,  18,  19. 

Professions     named    on     book- 
plates, 9. 

Quincy,  Josiah,  87. 

Randolph,  Peyton,  9. 

Ravenel,  Daniel,  341. 

Rawdon,  R.,  146. 

Rawle  Law  Offices,  344. 

Recent  plates,  340. 

Reed,  Elijah  F.,  7. 

Revere,  Paul,  6,   146;  his  plate, 

148. 
Revolutionary    soldiers'    plates, 

90. 
Reynolds,  Hannah,  17. 
Rhode  Island  plates : 


LIST  NUMBER. 

Barton, 

60 

Brown, 

III 

De  Blois,  N.  J., 

213 

Elam, 

Fowler, 

Gilpin, 

Marchant, 

Redwood  Library, 

250 
283 
312 

553 
608 

Spooner, 

814 

VVarren, 

910 

Ribbon  and  Wreath  plates  de- 
scribed, 54. 

Ribbon  and  Wreath  plates  by 
Ilurd,  in. 

Robbins,  Thomas,  6. 

Roberts,  George  C.  M.  (M.D.), 
6. 

Rollinson,  56,  149. 


Rowe,  Henry  S.,  376. 
Rowfant  Club,  Cleveland,  75. 
Royal    officers  who    had   book- 
plates, 86. 
Russell,  John  E.,  357. 
Russell,  Thomas,  59,  125. 

Sage,  Dean,  360,  361. 
Sandham,  Henry,  77. 
Sargeant,  Jacob,  46. 
Schlaick,  Fred  C,  362. 
School-boy  doggerel,  23. 
Scott,  Winfield.  103. 
Sears,  George  Edward,  358. 
Selfridge,  Thomas  O.,  22. 
Seton,  Monsignor,  344. 
Seymour,   George   Dudley,  369, 

370. 
Shelton,  Miss  Ada  Stewart,  375. 
Sherborn,  C.  W.,  370. 
Signed  plates,  82. 
Signers  of  the  Declaration  who 

used  book-plates,  90. 
Sill,  Geo.  Imbrie,  353. 
Smith,  G.  A.,  159. 
Smith,  Samuel,  282,  283. 
Smith,  William  P.,  44,  45. 
Smithers,  J..  151. 
Social  Friends  Societv,  67. 
Social  Law  Library,  66. 
Society    for     Propagating     the 

Gospel    in    Foreign   Parts, 

65,  66. 
South  Carolina  plates : 


Beresford, 
Drayton, 
Drayton,  ]., 
Drayton,  \V., 
Drayton,  W.  H. 
Gibbes,  E.  A., 
Gibbes,  J.  S., 
Gibbs,  J".  W., 
Hall, 
Hayne, 
Hayward, 
Hay  ward, 
Horry, 
Inglis, 


T., 


LIST  NUMBER. 
76 
228 
229 
230 
231 
302 

304.  305 
341 
364 
367 
370 

393 
406 


Index. 


435 


LIS! 

NUMBER 

Johnson,  W.  L., 

433 

Johnston, 

438 

L , 

469 

Laurens, 

473 

Mackey, 

546 

Manigault, 

548 

March, 

552 

Middleton, 

574 

Petigru, 

666 

Phoenix  Society, 

676 

Pownall, 

695 

Preston, 

698 

Prioleau, 

70s 

Protestant  Episcopal 

Society, 

811 

Rutledge, 

750 

Shubrick, 

781 

Smith,  William, 

806 

Smith,  William  L., 

807 

Strobel, 

835 

Taylor, 

847 

Waties, 

915 

Whitridge, 

932 

Young, 

976 

Southern  book-plates,  3,  81,  88. 
Sparrow,  T.  (engraver).  20,  151. 
Specially  interesting  plates,  79. 
Spooner,  Joshua,  44,  no,  iii. 
Sprigg,  Richard,  20. 
Statesmen's  plates,  8g. 
Staufter,  J.  McN.,  373. 
Stedman,  Alexander,  17. 

Edmund  Clarence,  100. 
Stevenson,  E.  Irenaeus,  351. 
Stewart,  Anthony,  48. 
Stone,    Arthur    Robinson,    362, 

364- 
Styles  of  book-plates,  37. 
Sullivan,  John,  56. 
Sutro    Library,    San    Francisco, 

73- 
Swett,  J.  B.,  59,  289. 

Tayloe,  7,  291. 
Tazewell.  8. 

Terry,  William  D.,  152. 
Thackara,  James,   152. 
Thaxter,  Thomas,  17.' 
Thomas,  Isaiah,  83. 
Thomas,  I.  G.,  18. 


Ticknor,  George,  his  motto,  24. 

Tiffany,  John  K.,  363. 

Titled     Americans     who     have 

book-plates.  88. 
Trenchard,  Lieut.  E.,  10,  12. 
Trenchard,  James,  152. 
Trumble,  Alfred,  357. 
Tuberville,  2,  8. 
Turner,  James,  6,  79,  155. 
Tyler,  Andrew,  46,  1 1 1 . 
Tyler,  John,  85. 

Uncertain  plates,  11. 
Union  Circulating  Library,  Phila- 
delphia, 71. 
United  States : 


LIST  NUMBER 

Army, 

Congress, 

Navy, 

874 

875 

876-7 

University  Club,  Washington,  75. 

Vallance,  John,  157. 
Van  Allen.  Adam,  367. 
Vanamee.  William,  349. 
Varick,  Richard,  295. 
Vassal,  John,  79,  1 14. 
Vaughan,  Samuel,  53. 
Vermont  plates : 

LIST   NUMBER. 

Stevens,  822-3 

Virginia  book-plates,  8. 

Council  plate,  297. 
Virginia  plates : 


LIST   NUMBER 

Ambler, 

16 

Andrews, 

21 

Archer, 

21,  32 

Armistead, 

33 

Banister, 

57 

Bathurst, 

62 

Bayley, 

66 

Beverley, 

78-80 

BolHng, 

88 

Bo-icher, 

95 

Biimage, 

106 

Bruff, 

116 

Burke, 

119 

Byrd, 

123 

43^ 


American  Book-plates. 


LIST   NUMBER. 

Cabell,  Dr.  George,  124 
Cabell,  Samuel  J.,  125 
Carroll,  136,  137 
Cary,  141 
Cay,  143 
Chin,  985 
Craven,  188 
Custis,  George  \V.,  195 
Custis,  John  P.,  196 
Davenport,  206 
Dinwiddle,  224 
Dove,  I.,  226 
Dove,  S.  E.,  227 
Fairfax,  265 
Fauquier,  269 
Fitzhugh,  274 
Fitzhugh,  William  Junr.,  275 
Gilmer,  309 
Hay,  361 
Holladay,  383 
Hubard,  395 
Inglis,  407 
lones,  440 
King,  454 
Kinloch,  460 
Lee,  476 
Lee,  E.,  477 
Lee,  P.  L.,  479 
Leiper,  480 
Lightfoot,  Philip,  487 
Lighifoot,  William,  488 
Ludwell,  530 
McKenzie,  Kenneth,  539 
McKenzie,  William,  540 
Mackay  545 
Manning,  551 
Marshall,  555 
Mercer,  Hugh,  571 
Mercer,  Jolin,  572 
Milner,  578 
Murray,  James,  598 
Murray,  |ohn,  599 
Murray,  Earl  Dunmore,  602 
Nelson,  604 
Page,  633 
Parke,  638 
Phillips,  672 
Power,  694 
Randolph,  John,  713 
Randolph,  John  of  Roa- 
noke, 714 
Randolph,  John,  jr.,  715 
Randolph,  Peyton,  716 
Randolph,  Ry'land,  717 
Routh,  742 
Scott,  Gustavus,  765 


LIST   NUMBER 

Scott,  Winfield, 

767 

Semple, 
Skelton, 
Skipwith, 
Smith,  John  A., 
Smith,  Robert, 

774 
786 
787 
793 
797 

Smith,  Thomas, 

800 

Spotswood, 

Stith, 

81S 
828 

Stott, 

832 

Tayloe, 
Tazewell, 

846 
850 

Thompson, 
Thornton, 

8S4 
859 

Thruston, 

860 

Tuberville, 

866 

Tucker, 

867 

Virginia  Council  Cham- 
ber, 897-8 
Waller,  905 
Washington,  Bushrod,  912 
Washington,  George,  913 
Welford,  921 
Wormeley,  957-8 
Wythe,  963 

Volaplik  motto.  34. 

Wadsworth.  Jeremiah,  iv. 

Wallace,  Allen,  364. 

Waller,  8. 

Warren,  John  C,  299,  300. 
W.,  300,  301. 

Washington,  Bushrod,  95,  96, 
300. 

Washington,  George,  his  plate, 
90  ;  his  motto.  30.  79  ;  fraud- 
ulent, 91  ;  genuine,  94. 

Washington,  D  C,  plates  : 


LIST  NUMBER 

Lenthall, 

481 

Ruff, 

744 

Watkinson  Library.  Hartford,  75. 

Way,  W.  Irving.  368. 

Webster,  Daniel.  97. 

Welsh  mottoes.  33. 

Weld,  John  (of  Pomfret,  Conn.), 

18. 
Wentworth,  53,  107. 


Index. 


437 


West  India  plates : 


LIST   NUMBER 

Ashwell, 

34 

Assheton, 

36 

Beete, 

70 

Blanc, 

83 

Blenman, 

86 

Byam, 

122 

Campbell, 

134 

Edwards, 

247 

Heining, 

372 

Hunter, 

399 

Jamaica,  Bishop  of, 

421 

Knox, 

468 

Martin, 

557 

Pinfold, 

683,  684 

Robertson, 

736 

Royall, 

743 

Salter, 

754 

Vaughan, 

890 

Williams,  William, 

936 

Wilson,  John, 

947 

Wilson,  John, 

948 

Wethersfield  Library  plate,  133. 
Wetmore,  Prosper,  56. 
Wetmore,  William,  147. 
Wheeler,  Joseph  H.,  361. 
White,  Richard  Grant,  loi. 
Williams.    Chauncey  Lawrence, 

364- 
Williams,  John,  54. 
Williams,  Rev.  John,  82. 
Williams,  John  C,  in. 
Wilson,  Francis,  376. 
Winslow,  John  F.,  346. 
Woolworth,  Aaron,  17. 
Worcester  Circulating    Library, 

23- 
Wormeley,  8. 
Wynkoop,  Richard,  56. 


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